Fueling Growth: Smart Capital Strategies in a Shifting Market.
Presented By: BMO / Burr Forman
Discover how today’s business leaders are financing business growth amid evolving market conditions. We’ll explore the latest trends in debt, equity, and private credit—plus real-world insights from those who’ve navigated SPACs, private equity, and strategic M&A. Learn what’s working, what’s changing, and how to position your company for its next phase of expansion.
Moderator:
Partner
Burr & Forman LLP
Ed represents commercial banks, finance companies and private credit funds as agents in multi-lender facilities and as lenders in bilateral facilities, with extensive experience in the following areas: asset-based lending; cash flow lending; mezzanine finance; leveraged acquisition finance; workouts, forbearance and restructurings; and insolvency proceedings financing.
Panelists:
Director
Stonehenge Capital Company
Mr. Dangar is responsible for the origination, underwriting and management of senior debt, mezzanine and equity investments from the Atlanta office. Prior to joining Stonehenge, Mr. Dangar led business development for transaction services for Aprio, LLC, a regional tax and accounting advisory firm focused on growing, middle market companies. Prior to that, Mr. Dangar was the National Deals Sales Leader for PwC, responsible for driving M&A conversations and advice with the firm’s U.S. clients. Prior to that, Mr. Dangar worked for 20 years in the investment banking field, providing buy-side M&A and financing advice to privately-held, growing companies in the US and abroad for Westminster Securities, Wachovia Securities and E&Y. Mr. Dangar earned a BS in Building Construction and a Minor in Economics from The Georgia Institute of Technology and his MBA at Emory University’s Goizueta Business School. Mr. Dangar was recently named one of Georgia's 500 Most Influential People by Georgia Trend Magazine.
Chairman
Reveam, Inc.
Mr. Falconer is Co-founder and Managing Member of ScanTech Holdings LLC. A 2007 graduate of Georgia Tech’s Advanced Technology Development Center (ATDC), ScanTech is an electron beam and X-ray technology holdings company.
Mr. Falconer is responsible for all corporate operations and has led the company to numerous local and national awards including the Best New Emerging Homeland Technology Company, the Top Ten Most Innovative Technology Company in Georgia, Finalist for Georgia’s International Deal of the Year and Runner-up at the Global Security Challenge.
Mr. Falconer has also played a key role in securing investment capital to fund the successful spin-off of ScanTech’s technology into a homeland security company, ScanTech Identification Beam Systems, LLC (www.scantechibs.com) and a food safety company, Reveam, Inc. (www.reveam.com).
Mr. Falconer still plays an active role in both spin-offs serving as founding President and Chief Executive Officer at ScanTech Identification Beam Systems and Chairman of the Board and a senior technical advisor at Reveam.
Managing Director, Loan Syndications
BMO
Liz originates and structures syndicated bank loans for BMO’s corporate clients across a variety of industries with fifteen years of experience. Previously, she was in BMO’s Leveraged Finance group where she originated and structured both syndicated loans and high yield bond financings for private equity and corporate clients across a variety of industries. Liz earned her Bachelor’s degree in Economics from DePauw University.