Moderator: Vijay Vaswani, Bennett Thrasher Vijay Vaswani is a Partner at Bennett Thrasher and leads the firm’s M&A Advisory practice. In this capacity, Vijay advises strategic buyers and sellers as well as private equity investors on mergers, acquisitions and divestitures. He has more than 15 years of experience across a wide variety of accounting and finance disciplines, highlighted by his time spent in corporate development at two publicly traded companies and transaction advisory at a Big 4 accounting firm. With hands-on experience across the full spectrum of the deal cycle, Vijay brings a unique set of skills and experiences to Bennett Thrasher that separate him from many of the traditional transaction advisors in the market.