2024 ACG Boston: Connecting the Next Generation to M&A (Members Only)

Sara Bowdoin is a Managing Director at Siguler Guff and is actively involved in sourcing, due diligence, execution and monitoring of fund investments and co-investments for the Firm's Small Buyout Opportunities Funds. She is an Advisory Board member of several underlying funds, as well as a Board Member or Board Observer to numerous portfolio companies. She is the Co-Chair of the Firm’s ESG Committee and also the Co-Chair of the Firm’s Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Committee.

Prior to joining Siguler Guff in 2009, Ms. Bowdoin worked at Lazard Middle Market as an Investment Banking Analyst providing merger and acquisition, corporate finance, restructuring and private placement services to middle market companies and private equity groups.

Focus:

Small Business Buyout

Education:

Ms. Bowdoin holds a B.A. in Mathematics from Wake Forest University.

During his 30-year career, Joe Volman has become known as a go-to lawyer in the middle-market community, particularly with respect to mid-market mergers and acquisitions. Through his creative, results-driven approach, Joe partners with his clients as a strategic advisor, and leverages his vast network to help clients source deals and raise capital in order to effectively drive growth and maximize returns on their investments.

He is particularly skilled in negotiating in a constructive and collaborative fashion, made evident by an illustrious career grown through referrals of past clients and industry-leading companies seeking his expertise for buy- and sell-side transactions. On the sell-side, Joe helps clients prepare for the sale process, including tax and other structuring. He assists strategic and financial acquirors with tax, structuring, and negotiating transaction documents.

In addition to his M&A work, Joe represents entrepreneurs and investors, startups and emerging companies, and private equity/venture capital funds through all phases of the fundraising and investment process. Joe also has significant experience representing small and mid-cap public companies and investment banking firms that work in the small and mid-cap markets. He helps early-stage companies with formation and financing, and guides venture funds with the structure and negotiation of venture capital financings. For small and mid-cap public companies, he helps them comply with securities laws, attain public and private financings, and execute M&A transactions.

Joe has a deep understanding of several dynamic sectors, including technology (particularly SaaS and fintech companies), business services, professional services, consumer businesses, life sciences, manufacturing, logistics, healthcare, sports, food/beverage and hospitality.

Outside of work, Joe has served as the president of the Boston chapter of Association for Corporate Growth (ACG), one of the largest M&A organizations in the world. He served as the president of the board of Jewish Family Service (JFS) of Metrowest, a not-for-profit helping seniors and those who are in need of food, clothing, and shelter. Additionally, Joe is a lecturer in the Entrepreneurship Program at Tufts University’s Gordon Institute, teaching Business Law for Entrepreneurs.