ACG 101 Feb 26th 2025 Private Equity and M&A Panel

Alidad Damooei is a Partner in Stradling’s corporate practice group. Alidad represents public and private companies, private equity funds, independent sponsors and founders in domestic and cross-border transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, fund formation, PIPEs, minority investments, rollovers, and joint ventures. His experiences span a broad range of industries, including retail & consumer products, food & beverage, restaurants, technology, aerospace & defense, REITs, and healthcare & life sciences.

Prior to joining Stradling, Alidad was an M&A attorney at the global law firms of Latham & Watkins LLP and Sullivan & Cromwell LLP. Over the course of his career Alidad has closed M&A transactions worth an aggregate value of  over $150 billion.

David Bonrouhi is co-founder and Managing Director of Calabasas Capital, a boutique investment banking firm that provides M&A advisory and private equity and debt capital raising for lower mid-market companies focusing on family-owned businesses. David has over 25 years of investment banking and private equity experience. He began his investment banking career at Merrill Lynch in New York and later worked in private equity for UnionBanCal Equities focusing on investments in middle market companies. David began his career as a CPA and tax consultant with Price Waterhouse in New York.  He holds Series 7, 63 and 79 licenses with Fallbrook Capital Securities Corporation (Calabasas Capital is a dba of Fallbrook Capital), is a licensed California CPA (inactive) and a licensed California broker. David has an MBA in Finance and Entrepreneurial Studies from UCLA’s Anderson School of Management, and a Masters in Tax and a B.S. in Accounting from Miami of Ohio.

Ryan Bristol is a Managing Director and co-head of the Legacy Multi-family Office at UBS.  Ryan has been very active in the M&A community over the past decade as he has helped 60 clients complete liquidity events.

Advising and providing sophisticated wealth management solutions to high net worth individuals, family groups, foundations, and other institutions for over 20 years. Through UBS, one of the world's largest wealth managers with 150 years of history addressing the needs of some of the most affluent people in the world, we deliver world-class capabilities through our global footprint across our practice areas: investments, credit, and estate planning.

Jeremy R. Holland is a Managing Partner at The Riverside Company, leading the Origination team across the various funds/strategies in North America. Jeremy joined the Riverside in 2010, when they recruited him to switch from executing deals to focusing on originating new investment opportunities in the Western US & Canada.  He has more than 25 years of private equity experience, across a range of industries and throughout the capital structure.  He began his private equity career with Buttonwood Capital Group immediately after completing his undergraduate studies.  Jeremy earned a B.S. degree in Finance from California State University Northridge.

The Riverside Company is one of the largest and oldest global private equity firms that remains committed to the entrepreneurial end of the market.  Riverside has approximately $13 billion in assets under management.  The firm makes control acquisitions up to $400 million in total enterprise value and has a variety of non-control solutions.  Since its founding in 1988, Riverside has invested in more than 1,000 transactions and currently has a portfolio that includes more than 140 companies worldwide.  The firm’s specializations include: healthcare, education & training, manufacturing, tech-enabled business services & software, consumer branded products and franchising.  More information on The Riverside Company can be found at www.riversidecompany.com.

Alicia is a Vice President at Shamrock Capital. She currently serves as a director of AnswerLab, EDO and Skillable. Alicia helps analyze new investment opportunities and is actively involved with Shamrock’s investments in The Lede Company, Ad Results Media and Pixellot. Prior to joining Shamrock in 2019, Alicia was a member of the Corporate Strategy group at The Walt Disney Company and focused on M&A and long-term strategic initiatives for the company.

Alicia graduated cum laude from Harvard University and earned an MBA with honors from Harvard Business School.

Tim Meyer is the Co-founder and Managing Partner of Angeles Equity Partners, an operationally oriented, industrial focused private equity firm he established in 2014.  He is responsible for setting firm strategy and providing leadership and insight to all investment and portfolio related decisions. 

He has served as the Chairman and/or Chief Executive Officer of numerous portfolio companies, as well as co-chairing both the Management and Investment Committees.  Tim has been a private equity investor and operator since 2005 and has significant experience in M&A and strategy, corporate carveouts, turnarounds, take privates and IPOs.     

Prior to his career in private equity, Tim led numerous strategy, M&A and operational improvement engagements for corporate and private equity clients during his tenure at Bain & Company.  He earned an MBA from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania and received a B.A. in Finance and was a member of the Fellows program at The Mays Business School at Texas A&M University.

Matt joined Century Park Capital Partners in 2014. He is responsible for the business development and deal sourcing efforts of the firm. Prior to joining Century Park Capital Partners, Matt worked for Dinan and Company, a merchant banking advisory firm, where he was responsible for actively identifying, originating and analyzing investment opportunities for private equity groups and corporate acquirers primarily in the industrials, healthcare services, consumer products, and business services sectors. Prior to Dinan and Company, he served as a Financial Advisor with Merrill Lynch. As part of a dynamic wealth management group, Matt provided a wide array of financial services to a select group of high net-worth individuals, families and businesses with significant investment assets. Matt holds a B.S. in International Finance and Trade from Georgetown University, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service.