Lami Ajibesin, CPA, is a Managing Director and Leader of Anchin’s Transaction Advisory Services practice. She has a passion for deals and has spent the last 15 years mastering various aspects of the deal continuum, including buy- and sell-side mergers and acquisitions, infrastructure finance and private equity transactions.

She has advised on over $10 billion worth of private equity, strategic investments and secondary transactions including both LP-focused and GP-led mandates. Lami received her MBA in finance from the University of Texas at Austin’s McCombs School of Business and her B.S. in accounting from the University of Lagos, Nigeria.

Peter Braverman is Vice President of Global Venue Sales for Donnelley Financial Solutions™, a financial software solutions company. He has 16 years of experience in the industry and focuses on selling SaaS solutions in the Capital Markets industry.

Dominic Chan works on financial sponsors coverage and deal sourcing. Prior to joining Vaquero, he worked in the investment management divisions at Goldman Sachs and Barclays Capital, covering private equity fund relationships. He serves on the Board of Directors for the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco ArtPoint and is a founding member of the San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra Alumni Leadership Council. Dominic graduated with a B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley.

Tosh is based in our London office, and works across Europe to provide specialist advice on cross-border transactions with Asia, leveraging his 25 years of M&A experience.

Tosh set up DC’s Asia Access team in Europe a decade ago, following his successful careers at Nomura and also as a strategic management consultant.

Robert Koven is the Managing Director of Leonis Partners, one of New York City’s top financial firms with a focus on Mergers & Acquisitions and equity capital transactions. After working for investment banks like JPMorgan and Lazard Freres, Robert Koven and his team at Leonis took techniques they learned at those large financial institutions and applied them to growing technology businesses. They found much interest in the middle market where, historically, access to premier M&A and capital advice was limited. From its founding, Leonis has grown quickly and emerged as a leader in technology M&A and capital raising.

Robert Koven continues to grow Leonis Partners, preparing a West Coast expansion to complement the company’s New York, Washington, DC, and Atlanta locations.

Raja is a qualified chartered accountant with 25 years of experience in accounting and consulting in India. He has also led global cross-border client engagements in the USA and Europe.

Currently, he is a Partner with Grant Thornton in India, and the Managing Partner of the consumer, technology and financial services business group for the west region. Raja is also a part of the National Minder Group and Culture Leadership Team for the Firm.

He has led the transaction advisory practice, private equity, and venture capital initiatives for the Firm, and is also a part of the global technology steering committee group for Grant Thornton Global.

Raja has advised various private equity firms, venture capital funds, corporates (Indian and international) and entrepreneurs on business strategy, corporate finance, leadership consulting, and their growth agenda. He has been involved in some of the marquee transactions for leading corporate and PE funds.

Matt has over 25 years of experience focusing on serving the needs of the emerging growth sector, advising on new entity formation, venture and other private capital financings, corporate venture capital, M&A transactions, IPOs, SPACs, and corporate governance and compensation matters, among others.

Matt has long been recognized as a leading corporate attorney, having been selected as a Band 1 Technology lawyer in Texas by Chambers & Partners USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business for over a decade, and has also been frequently recognized in Best Lawyers in America and The US Legal 500.

Matt has built his emerging companies practice from his base in Austin as the city has evolved from its early stages of growth into a global technology powerhouse, cultivating both local and national relationships.

Joseph is a Managing Director and Co-Head of the firm’s TMT Investment Banking Practice, and leads the firm’s team in the Communication Systems and Technologies sector. Joseph is located in the Chicago office.

His focus includes Internet of Things, Connected Car/AutoTech, Smart City, Unified Communications (UCaaS), Industrial Internet and communication networks software and hardware. Over his nearly thirty years of investment banking and strategic advisory experience, Joseph has worked as a trusted advisor with his clients in closing more than 115 transactions including merger, acquisition, divestiture, equity and debt capital formation, public offering, recapitalization, international/cross-border and strategic advisory assignments. He has worked with clients ranging from emerging innovators to large, multinational industry leaders.

Joseph brings over 30 years of investment banking experience including his time as a Partner at St. Charles Capital (acquired by KPMG), where he led the firm’s Communication Systems and Technologies team. Previously, he served as Managing Director in the Global Investment Banking group at RBC Capital Markets where he led the Communication Technologies practice and held leadership positions including Global Head of Communication Technologies, Head of Semiconductors, and Head of Hardware Technologies.

Joseph holds an MSc with Honors from The London School of Economics and Political Science, and a MBA and BA Finance from the University of St Thomas in St Paul MN.