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Gregory A. Fresh
Managing Director

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Greg has an extensive background in mergers and acquisitions and corporate finance. During the course of his 25+ year career, he has been involved in both sell-side, buy-side, and capital markets transactions in a variety of settings, both as an advisor and as a principal investor.

Greg is a Registered Representative with Chartwell affiliate, CCS Transactions, LLC and holds FINRA Series 7, 62, and 79 licenses.

Prior to leading Chartwell’s corporate finance group,Greg was Managing Director at Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BAML) Middle-Market M&A advisory group, where he was responsible for covering diversified industrial clients, as well as covering ESOP advisory for both middle market and global investment banks. Prior to BAML, Greg was a Managing Director at ABN AMRO’s North American Mid-Market Corporate Finance group (ABN), where he was responsible for M&A and general corporate finance. While at ABN, he established the ESOP Advisory practice for the investment bank, leveraging LaSalle’s ESOP structured lending business into an advisory capability. In addition, with the Financial Sponsors group, he initiated a public-to-private practice for mid-cap companies.

Prior to his global investment banking experience, he was a Managing Director at Lazard Middle Market (formerly known as Goldsmith Agio Helms), where he represented corporations, private equity, and private business owners in a variety of middle-market transactions. Furthermore, Greg held positions of increasing responsibility in corporate development and financial management with Diageo, PLC, a global food and beverage products company, and, Invensys PLC, a global technology company. Greg began his M&A career in private equity with the Jordan Company.

Greg graduated magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Business Administration from Northeastern Illinois University. Greg is an Associate member of the Legal & Regulatory Committee of The ESOP Association and past member of the Advisory Committee for the Employee-Owned S Corporations of America (ESCA).