Most InfluentialM&A Advisors

October 28, 2013 • An Advertising Supplement to the Los Angeles Business Journal

This special advertising supplement did not involve the reporting or editing staff of the Los Angeles Business Journal.

HAVING the right Mergers &Acquisitions experts on your side –be they attorneys, accountants or

bankers, may be one of the most crucialbusiness decisions you and your organiza-tion make. It can be the difference betweena successful partnering with or acquisitionof another organization, taking your own

company to the next level vs. a poorly exe-cuted disaster that takes years for yourorganization to recover from.

Fortunately, there are some stellar M&AAdvisors in Los Angeles. We’ve listed some ofthem here, along with basic informationabout their careers, practice and some rele-vant recent successes they’ve achieved.

Congratulations to the professionals who made this list and thank you for your contributions to the local business landscape!

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Years practicing: 32

Years with current firm: 21

Education: JD: Loyola Law School; MBA: USC; BA: UCLA.

Examples of work:

Lloyd Greif specializes in serving as consigliere to closely-held, middle-market growth companies, about half of which are family businesses. He has been extremely successful in providing strategic and operational advice to his clients in addition to executing complex merger & acquisition and corporate financing transactions.

Greif’s career highlights include engineering the buyout from Fortune Brands that combined Pinkerton’s with California Plant Protection, creating the largest secur ity services company in the country. He also led the leveraged buyout of Bumble Bee Seafoods from Diageo by Unicord Co. Ltd. of Thailand, the largest acquisition of a U.S. company by a Thai company. Greif arranged the sale of one-half of Patrón Spirits Co. to Bacardi International in the transaction that formed The Windsong Trust, one of southern California’s largest philanthropies, and the sales of Jon Douglas Real Estate Services Group and Fred Sands Realtors to Coldwell Banker. He also spearheaded the IPOs of Smart & Final, LA Gear and U.S. Filter as well as the sale of Mrs. Gooch’s Natural Foods Market to Whole Foods. Greif also architected the sale of Rose Hills Mortuary & Cemetery to the Loewen Group in the transaction that formed The Rose Hills Foundation and coaxed The Coca-Cola Company into making the fir st-ever minority investment in its 125-year history, engineering a strategic partnership

with his client, Bossa Nova Beverage Group. Finally, he sold Bristol Farms to Albertson’s and then bought it back from SuperValu and completed the purchase of certain operating assets of LA Gear by Skechers U.S.A.

Recent Transactions include:

The sales of Senn Delaney Leadership Consulting Group to Heidrick & Struggles International and Monte Nido & Affiliates to Centre Partners.

Lloyd Greif President & Chief Executive Officer Greif & Co.

 

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