Ryan Buckley:
Mr. Buckley is currently a director of Livingstone Partners LLC, an international investment bank that provides advisory services to both healthy and distressed companies with regard to merger and acquisition (M&A) and capital raising transactions. Ryan is one of Livingstone’s most tenured employees, joining the firm at its inception in July 2007, and has been instrumental in supporting Livingstone’s growth and deal activity within the U.S. Focused predominately on the consumer, healthcare, and industrial sectors, Ryan has completed over 25 transactions extending across both sell-side and buy-side M&A advisory work, capital raises consisting of senior and junior debt securities, preferred and common equity securities, and the rendering of both fairness and solvency opinions. His experience also includes advising on numerous cross-border transactions. Mr Buckley (i) has provided strategic advisory services to a private, multi-unit / multi-concept restaurant operator, (ii) has advised processors of protein, vegetables, and fruit to restaurant operators on M&A and refinancing transactions, (iii) has advised numerous multi-unit operators, across a variety of sectors, on M&A and refinancing transactions, and (iv) is a private investor in numerous chef-driven restaurant concepts. Prior to Livingstone, Ryan worked as an investment banking analyst at Brown Gibbons Lang & Co. in Chicago (June 2005 - May 2007) and in the workout group of Merrill Lynch Business Financial Services (2004). He holds a B.B.A. from the Stephen M. Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan (2005) and is series 63 and 79 licensed. Mr. Buckley is 31 years old.