Sit down with James Cassel, Chairman, Cassel Salpeter & Co., LLC.
Cassel Salpeter & Co., LLC focuses on providing independent and objective advice to middle market and emerging growth companies. Their investment banking and advisory services include broad capabilities for both private and public companies.
Mr. Cassel takes an active role with clients, and his extensive transactional and corporate finance experience serves as a valuable resource. Through membership on boards of directors and his active involvement in outside business operations, Mr. Cassel has developed a keen understanding of the challenges faced by middle market and emerging growth companies. Mr. Cassel has negotiated, structured and executed various types of transactions including mergers, acquisitions and divestitures; corporate and transactional financing, including venture capital, mezzanine and conventional financing; and public offerings and private placements. With experience as an investment banker and as an attorney, Mr. Cassel has also developed a unique understanding of the issues faced and alternatives available for distressed companies. He has particular experience in developing financial restructuring plans, negotiating with creditors and guiding debtors through bankruptcy proceedings.
Nationally recognized for his investment banking expertise, Mr. Cassel frequently lectures on timely issues relating to middle market investment banking. Prior to joining Ladenburg Thalmann, he founded Capitalink. Mr. Cassel was also President of Catalyst Financial, where he advised clients on financings and mergers and acquisitions. He was also the Managing Partner of the Miami office and served on the executive committee of Broad and Cassel, one of Florida's largest law firms. He founded and led the firm's corporate/securities practice.
Mr. Cassel has served on boards of directors of several companies, in addition to the National Investment Banking Association, an organization of middle market investment banking firms as well as M & A International, a worldwide group of investment banking firms. His professional involvements have also included membership in the American Association of Arbitrators, and the NASD Board of Arbitrators. In addition, he was President of the South Florida Chapter of the Association for Corporate Growth and is presently on the Board. Mr. Cassel was a member of the Board of Directors of Equity One, a NYSE listed REIT from April 2005 until May of 2014 and served on the Audit governance and compensation committees. He was also a member of the City of Miami, Florida Budget Task Force (2010).
Mr. Cassel earned a Bachelor of Science degree from American University (1976) and a J.D. degree from the University of Miami School of Law (1979). Ransom School (1973) He is a member of the New York and Florida Bars.
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