Preparing For The Sale of Your Business: Part 3 with Matthew Hammer & Dawn Mase (Ep. 40)

Dollars and Sense: Creating Your Fulfilled Life

27-03-2024 • 44 mins

Are you grappling with the complexities of selling your business, unsure of where to start or how to navigate the process?

In this enlightening episode, Nicole is joined by seasoned professionals, Matthew Hammer and Dawn Mase from Wintrust Commercial Banking, to shed light on the intricacies of selling a business. Through their experiences and insights, they demystify the process and provide valuable advice to help business owners overcome different hurdles to successfully exit their business and leave it in the right hands.

Nicole, Matthew Hammer & Dawn Mase discuss:

Different ways to exit your business
Selling to strategic investors, financial investors, or through private sales
Structuring the sale transaction
Overcoming common pitfalls
Key components of the sale transaction, ie earnouts, rollover equity, and working capital adjustments
Continuing involvement post-sale
And more

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About Matthew:

Matthew Hammer is a Group Senior Vice President & Division Manager in Wintrust’s Commercial Bank managing Chicago-based middle market privately held businesses. Matt has 21 years of commercial banking experience, including helping lead Wintrust’s growth since 2013 with diverse experience with manufacturing, distribution, and service companies.

Matt has a Bachelor’s Degree from Purdue University, Krannert School of Management with a focus in Finance and Marketing. Matt is an Evans Scholar alum and active in various leadership positions within the Western Golf Association and Purdue University Chapter. Before joining Wintrust in 2013, Matt worked for LaSalle Bank and its successor Bank of America for 10 years.

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About Dawn Mase:

Dawn Mase is a Senior Vice President in Wintrust’s Commercial Bank where she serves as relationship manager identifying and developing new client relationships and providing comprehensive solutions to existing client relationships. Dawn has over 25 years of commercial banking experience in cash flow and collateralized lending, primarily to privately held companies covering a broad spectrum of industries. She has experience in many areas including financing, domestic and international treasury management, investment management, trade and FX, asset-based lending, equipment finance, derivatives as well as syndicated finance.

Dawn earned a bachelor’s degree in business from Illinois State University with a focus in finance. She has been actively involved in mentoring young bankers throughout her career. Prior to Wintrust, she worked for JPMorgan Chase within their capital markets group. She specialized in syndicated finance and private placements and was Series 7 licensed.