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IAN SYLVAN has joined the investment banking practice of CLA (CliftonLarsonAllen), a professional services firm, as a managing director. In this role, he will provide additional senior-level resources to the Oakbrook, Illinois, investment banking and M&A advisory practice. Sylvan has more than three decades of M&A advisory, investment banking, financing and related transaction experience. Prior to joining CLA, he was a managing director with Fifth Third Securities in the investment banking group and was a managing director and head of the M&A Advisory Group at MB Financial Bank prior to its acquisition by Fifth Third. In that role, he executed midmarket M&A advisory and capital-raising transactions.
DANIELA MESSINA, a Boston attorney and private equity veteran, has founded Portside Capital Solutions to provide strategic counsel to PE funds, single- and multi-family offices, emerging funds, independent sponsors and corporate clients. Messina served as director of business development for Nixon Peabody’s PE and family office practice where she led initiatives including the strategic rebranding and oversight of the firm’s deal-sourcing referral program. She served as deputy general counsel for the Massachusetts Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation (OCABR) where she worked closely with various OCABR agencies. She currently serves as a board member of ACG’s Boston chapter and on the Corporate Board Committee of The Boston Club, an organization for women executives and professional leaders.
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Washington, D.C.-based private equity firm The Halifax Group has promoted JERRY L. JOHNSON to partner. Johnson was previously an operating executive with Halifax. As a partner, he moves from an advisory role to overseeing sourcing, evaluating and executing investments and supporting portfolio companies. Before joining Halifax, Johnson was senior vice president of corporate development, strategy and investor relations at niche manufacturer EnPro Industries and was a founding member and partner of middle-market PE firm RLJ Equity Partners.
NEAL ENGLAND has joined Founders Advisors investment bank as managing director for the firm’s Dallas office where he will lead the business services practice. England brings more than 25 years of strategy development, executive operations, M&A and integration experience to the role. He will advise across all phases of the transaction process for middle-market clients. England has led and completed more than 40 buyor sell-side transactions for technology or business services companies. Prior to joining Founders Advisors, he was managing director, HRM practice leader and global co-head for a Dallas investment banking firm and he began his M&A career at Staffing Resources. He also served in operational roles with U.S. Personnel as regional vice president.
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