Mark Neibart

Managing Director
Leads A&M’s Information Technology Due Diligence service offering
30+ years of consulting experience 
Specializes in IT strategic planning, ERP selection and implementation, contract negotiation, project management, and post-close integration
Chicago
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Mark Neibart is a Managing Director with Alvarez & Marsal Private Equity Performance Improvement in Chicago. He leads the firm’s Information Technology Due Diligence service offering to private equity clients, which encompasses buy- and sell-side diligence.

Mr. Neibart brings extensive experience in IT strategic planning, enterprise resource planning (ERP) selection and implementation, contract negotiation, project management, and post-close integration. With more than 30 years of consulting experience, he has worked with targets and portfolio companies across a range of industries, including technology, retail, business services, field services, healthcare, manufacturing, distribution, and manufacturing companies.

Additionally, Mr. Neibart has led over 1,000 IT due diligence engagements that have involved a wide range of complex IT planning, systems implementation, scalability, integration, and personnel issues. His notable assignments include performing buy-side diligence for a provider of managed IT infrastructure services, including both private cloud and public cloud services. The assessment focused on the scalability of processes and systems for provisioning, onboarding, customer self-service, billing, and administration.

Mr. Neibart has also been involved in buy-side diligence for the carve-out of a large division (€3.5 billion) from a global manufacturer of industrial products. The diligence included estimating standalone costs and identifying Transition Services Agreement (TSA) requirements for business systems, technology infrastructure, and IT resources. In addition, Mr. Neibart provided negotiation assistance on a long-term commercial agreement for joint development and use of control systems, proprietary software used by customers of both the seller and carve-out entity. Mr. Neibart also led sell-side diligence for a software development firm that had experienced financial distress, including the development of an IT cost takeout plan to present to potential acquirers.

Prior to joining A&M, Mr. Neibart founded and spent 10 years managing Camber Advisors, a boutique consulting firm providing IT services to private equity investors. Previously, he spent 12 years with Deloitte, providing both corporate and private equity clients with IT assessment and ERP implementation services.

Mr. Neibart earned a bachelor’s degree in English from Dartmouth College and an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

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