|  Mr. Clarke has more than twenty-five years experience in
providing investment banking and financial advisory services
to middle market companies. In particular, Mr. Clarke has
focused on providing strategic advice relating to maximizing
shareholder value for both public and private companies and
leading execution teams to complete both mergers and acquisitions,
valuations, fairness opinions, and new capital financing
transactions.
Prior to joining FOCUS, Mr. Clarke co-founded
and was a managing partner of Shikaakwa Partners LLC, a firm
specializing in providing financial consulting and merger
and acquisition advisory services to private and closely-held
middle market companies facing strategic and financial decisions
that affect shareholder value.
Prior to the formation of SHIKAAWKA PARTNERS,
LLC, Mr. Clarke served as president of Prairie Advisors LLC,
a firm providing financial advisory consulting services for
two privately-owned companies with common ownership; annual
ESOP valuation services to long-standing client; and assisting
a privately-owned real estate development company with
obtaining bank financing and on-going monitoring of financial
results.
Prior to establishing Prairie Advisors in 2002, Mr. Clarke
served as managing director and co-founder of Heller Financial
Advisors, the mergers and acquisitions and financial advisory
unit of Heller Financial, Inc. Mr. Clarke was primarily
responsible for the origination and execution of merger and
acquisition transactions and other financial advisory assignments
for the portfolio companies of Heller’s private equity
fund clients.
Prior to co-founding Heller Financial Advisors, Mr. Clarke
had been a managing director and co-head of investment banking
at ABN AMRO Incorporated, completing more than 100 M&A
transactions representing over $10 billion in value. Previously,
Mr. Clarke spent more than twenty years in the investment
banking group of The Chicago Corporation, which was acquired
by ABN AMRO, most recently as managing director overseeing
both merger and acquisition and equity capital markets transactions
for companies engaged in business and consumer services,
telecommunications and the manufacture of industrial products.
Mr. Clarke currently serves as president of a privately-held
consumer services business. He is an investor in and
provides both operating and financial consulting services
to a residential housing and marina development company. He
is also president of the board of trustees of the Asheville
School, a private secondary institution in Asheville, North
Carolina.
Mr. Clarke holds an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago
Graduate School of Business, a C.P.A. from the University
of Illinois and a B.A. in Economics from the University of
Chicago.
Contact Information:
Philip R. Clarke III
875 N. Michigan Avenue, Suite 3100
Chicago, IL 60611
Office: 312 794-7888
Home Office: 630 323-9580
Cell: 312 543-8101
Fax: 630 323-0884
phil.clarke@focusbankers.com |
