Nick Alvarez is a Managing Director and National Practice Leader of Alvarez & Marsal’s Private Equity Performance Improvement Group. With 25 years of corporate advisory, operational improvement and interim management experience, he focuses on assisting private equity sponsors with due diligence and post-acquisition performance improvement.

Paul Aversano is a Managing Director with Alvarez & Marsal in New York. He is the Global Practice Leader of A&M’s Global Transaction Advisory Group and oversees the firm’s Corporate Transactions Group. For over 25 years, he has led both buy-side and sell-side financial and accounting due diligence projects for complex public and private company transactions, as well as transactions in the capital markets. He specializes in assessing quality of earnings and GAAP accounting; providing accounting and transaction structuring advice for leveraged buyouts; purchase accounting; and SEC reporting.

Adrian Balcombe is a Managing Director with Alvarez & Marsal’s European Transaction Advisory Group in London. He specialises in providing financial and related due diligence advisory services to private equity sponsors, corporates, debt providers and management, helping to create value throughout the transaction lifecycle.

Fernando de la Mora is a Managing Director of Alvarez & Marsal Spain. He specializes in providing advice to financial institutions in the areas of capital, stress testing and risk management and he is the Co-Head A&M’s Financial Services Industry (FSI) team.

David Edmonds is a Managing Director with Alvarez & Marsal Financial Services Industry (FSI) in London. He is Co-Head of FSI and heads A&M’s Global Portfolio Lead Advisory Services practice, focused on financial institution balance sheet optimization, deleveraging strategy, and execution through portfolio sales, structuring, and management.

Age Lindenbergh co-heads Alvarez & Marsal in the Benelux and is a Leader of the European Alvarez & Marsal’s Transaction Advisory Group. Age also leads their Financial Services transactions team in Europe. He has more than 20 years of experience advising financial institutions on transaction, regulatory and strategic issues. During that time he worked on over 300 transactions with an overall deal value of well in excess of USD130bn.

James (Jim) McDermott is a Managing Director and Leader with Alvarez & Marsal’s Insurance and Risk Advisory Services practice in New York.

Jessika van Veen is a Managing Director with Alvarez & Marsal Private Equity Performance Improvement in Amsterdam. She co-heads the Benelux team.