Equation Partners is managed by two senior professionals who each have a broad range of experience advising on M&A transactions, including sales of private companies and technologies, acquisitions and divestitures for public companies, and strategic partnerships, as well as cross-border transactions. We have the advantage of understanding the perspectives and issues facing both buyers and sellers, having each advised on acquisitions, sales, and divestitures, and having provided services as independent advisors and managing corporate development transactions within public companies. Together we have developed over 30 years of M&A experience advising on nearly 50 transactions.
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Alan Roy Hollander, Managing Partner
Alan Hollander has a broad combination of experience and expertise developed from his career as a business lawyer, venture capital fund partner, and investment banker. Prior to founding Equation Partners, he managed the Boston office of an international investment banking firm and acted as the advisor on many of that firm's most significant transactions. Previously he established a venture capital firm with a partner in Amsterdam that invested primarily in companies in the information technology industry and was a member of the Board of Directors of companies in which the venture capital firm made investments. He began his career as a lawyer and was an equity partner in the Boston-based law firm of Brown, Rudnick, Freed & Gesmer. His degrees include: J.D., cum laude, Boston College Law School; B.A., cum laude, double major in Philosophy and Psychology, Wesleyan University; and L.L.M., Taxation, Boston University School of Law. He is the principal author of the chapter, "Operating a Business in the United States" published in Penetrating International Markets (Kluwer) and "How To Avoid A Flawed Mergers and Acquisitions Process", Mass HighTech, September 2003.
Phone: 781 444 2129
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Peter J. White, Managing Partner
Peter has broad experience in identifying, closing and integrating acquisitions, divestitures, and investments in a range of technology businesses. He has driven more than 30 completed transactions. He gained his transaction experience while working in corporate development and strategy roles with technology companies and as an investment banker.
Prior to joining Equation Partners, he was vice president of corporate development at enterprise search software company FAST Search & Transfer where he completed several transactions prior to FAST’s sale to Microsoft, and then managed the integration process. At Teradyne, a semiconductor and electronics test company, he was director of corporate development where he completed more than fifteen transactions. In two prior roles at Teradyne, he performed strategic marketing for an internet testing start-up and managed the company’s annual planning process. Peter previously worked at IBM in the electronic commerce services group driving business development, and in the corporate strategy group evaluating and proposing emerging technology investments. Earlier, as an investment banker, at an M&A advisory firm, he participated in eight successful transactions. He also performed valuation services with Ernst & Young and Deloitte, Haskins & Sells. Peter started his career as a systems engineer in the Aerospace industry.
Peter is a Chartered Financial Analyst, has an MBA from Fairleigh Dickinson University, and has a BSEE from Lehigh University. He is a member of the Boston Security Analysts Society and the Association for Corporate Growth and was a co-inventor of an internet testing patent.
Phone: 781431 6487
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