Michael Golichowski

Managing Director
Experienced strategy, transformation, and M&A leader
Specializes in corporate real estate
20+ years providing value creation advisory to private equity and corporate entities across industries
Chicago
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Michael Golichowski is a Managing Director with Alvarez & Marsal Private Equity Performance Improvement in Chicago. 

Mr. Golichowski is an experienced strategy, transformation, and M&A leader, specializing in corporate real estate. A trusted advisor to clients, his deal experience spans the transaction life cycle, including buy-side and sell-side operational due diligence, carve-outs, tax-free spins, integrations, post-close/spin transformations, and performance improvement. During transactions and transformations, Mr. Golichowski helps clients to optimize real estate footprint, accelerate value, ensure business continuity, and mitigate risks. He brings 20 years of experience in providing value creation advisory to private equity and corporate entities across industries. 

Mr. Golichowski has led global teams, assisting clients in a variety of strategic initiatives, such as an enterprise cost takeout for a Fortune 100 global heavy equipment manufacturing company, where his team identified, planned, and executed $150 million of facilities cost savings; a tax-free spin and transformation for a Fortune 100 global industrial conglomerate, where his team reduced facilities expense by $200 million and monetized non-core real estate assets to unlock $100+ million in cash; and an integration of a Fortune 100 global healthcare and acute care provider, where his team hit 125% of synergy targets for facilities. 

Mr. Golichowski’s other notable assignments include: the integration of a Fortune 100 global aerospace business; the carve-out of a Fortune 500 global chemicals business segment to a private equity buyer; the carve-out of a Fortune 100 global healthcare technology company’s bio-pharma business segment to a strategic buyer; the three-way tax-free spin of a Fortune 100 industrials conglomerate; three-way tax-free spins of Fortune 100 industrial conglomerate, aerospace, technology, healthcare, and energy companies; and the carve-out of a Fortune 100 global life sciences company’s acute care business segment to a private equity buyer. 

Prior to joining A&M, Mr. Golichowski was a Principal with EY-Parthenon in the Transaction Strategy and Execution – Corporate Real Estate practice.

Mr. Golichowski earned a bachelor’s degree in business (concentration in finance) from Indiana University Bloomington and a Master of Corporate Real Estate qualification with workplace specialization (MCR.w). He is a licensed Commercial Real Estate Broker in the State of Illinois.

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