Firm:
Avant Advisory Group
Media Contact:
Martin S. McDermut CPA
Managing Director
Contact: (213) 943 1308
mmcdermut@avantadvisory.com MANAGEMENT CONSULTANT AWARDED CERTIFIED MERGER & ACQUISITIONS ADVISOR CREDENTIAL, ?GOLD STANDARD" FOR MIDDLE MARKET CORPORATE ADVISORS
JAMES F DAVIDSON, CPA and CTP (Certified Turnaround Professional) and Managing Director of Avant Advisory Group (www.avantadvisory.com/) with offices located in Los Angeles, Newport Beach, and Santa Barbara, California, and a global practice, has recently been awarded the advanced Certified Merger & Acquisitions Advisor (CM&AA) Credential. This certification has become the recognized "Gold Standard" for middle market corporate financial advisors.
The premiere designation is jointly awarded by the Alliance of Merger & Acquisition Advisors and Loyola University Chicago to corporate advisory professionals who are accredited experts in one or more professional fields (i.e., CPA, CFA, attorney, CTP, CFE, etc.), plus investment bankers and intermediaries. These experts have achieved mastery and knowledge of middle market M&A transactions. Those who successfully complete the intensive program and certification exam are awarded the advanced professional credential of Certified Merger & Acquisition Advisor. Topics covered in this program include:
? An Overview of the Private Capital Marketplace
? Dynamics of an M&A Engagement & Practice Management
? Buy- and Sell-Side Representation; Traditional Investment Banking
? Business Valuation and M&A Standards, Accounting, Finance
? Traditional Valuation and Transactional Valuation Methodology
? Other M&A Legal and Tax Issues
? Acquisition and Growth Financing
? Review and Examination for Credentialing
Jim Davidson is also a CPA/CFF and Certified Fraud Examiner and holds other financial forensics and fraud related designations. As such, he has the requisite expertise for performing strategic, operational, and forensics due diligence required in M&A transactions. As a CTP (Certified Turnaround Professional), he has special skills to assist in troubled company situations, particularly relating to such acquisitions.
About Avant Advisory Group
Avant Advisory Group is a professional consulting firm comprised of highly practiced strategic, operating, and financial executives. Avant?s managing directors alone have decades of combined business, executive, and consulting experience. The firm?s professionals are from some of the most prestigious consulting firms and companies.
Avant Advisory Group specializes in:
? Turnarounds, restructurings, and bankruptcy
? Mergers, acquisitions, and capital transactions
? Forensics, fraud investigations, and litigation support
? C-Suite executive and interim management: CFO, CRO, COO, CEO, and board of directors
Clients include public companies, middle market, and emerging growth companies. Their managements, investors, capital providers, and other professionals, including attorneys, trustees, receivers, creditor committees, secured lenders, and other parties in interest all benefit from the firm?s services.
The mission of Avant Advisory Group is to leverage trust and confidence in our services, create value, and enhance each client?s success.
About The Alliance of Merger & Acquisition Advisors (AM&AA)
The AM&AA is the premiere international association serving the educational and transaction support needs of the middle market M&A profession. Its members are practicing M&A professionals providing a wide variety of essential advisory and transaction support services. Members of AM&AA represent sellers and buyers of businesses generally ranging from at least $5 to $500 million or more in transaction value. Their services include seller representation, buyer representation, due diligence, accounting, financing, business valuation, tax planning, legal, strategic advisory, and many other transaction services. After many years of research, AM&AA members have identified ?best practice? leaders in organizing a comprehensive educational framework in mergers and acquisitions. For more information, call (877) 844-2535 or go to
http://www.amaaonline.com/cmaa About Loyola?s Executive Education Program
Loyola University Chicago?s Executive Education program provides high quality executive and management development programs on a professional development and customized basis. The CM&AA program is recognized as the primary benchmark of professional competency for the overall body of knowledge related to corporate financial advisory and transaction services for privately held companies. Training is innovative, rigorous, and challenging. CM&AA designation attests to mastery of the M&A body of knowledge and the commitment to staying abreast of new developments in the field. For more information, please visit Loyola University?s Web site at www.luc.edu/exec-ed/.
Media Contact:
Martin S. McDermut
Managing Director
Avant Advisory Group
Los Angeles, CA
mmcdermut@avantadvisory.com Phone: (213) 943 1308