Achieving growth while balancing compliance
The middle market and deal environment are fiercely competitive.
To stay on top of your complex business model and continue to grow, your firm needs relevant insights and strategies designed to help you deliver returns. And you need to balance growth and opportunities with evolving tax laws and regulations.
Wipfli can help accelerate your firm, with support for the latest technology, regulatory challenges and opportunities for firm encounters.
Why Wipfli?
Wipfli’s integrated approach means that all services are ready when needed — at the deal stage and every stage of the investment life cycle.
With a focus on increasing EBITDA, we provide actionable data quicker and put meaningful information in usable formats to support quality decisions. We also use technology and process improvement to protect your investments and create greater value.
Our professionals are ready to apply our deep industry specialization in coveted industries like manufacturing and distribution, healthcare, hospitality accommodations, technology, construction and real estate.
Portfolio company services
Wipfli’s portfolio company services help you keep pace with a rapidly changing, complex business. We help you stay competitive with guidance for improving performance and realizing value.
Transaction advisory services
Wipfli brings industry-specific agility and experience to your transaction. We provide you with end-to-end diligence and quality of earnings backed by technology solutions and a global network of audit, tax and financial advisory professionals so that you can maximize your return.
Our team
Michael L. Vaccarella
Leveraging nearly 20 years of public accounting experience, including over 10 years specializing in mergers and acquisitions, Michael is a leader in Wipfli's private equity services practice. As a leader in the transaction advisory services, he provides and coordinates buy-side and sell-side transaction support and consulting for closely held corporations, family offices, and private equity funds and their portfolio holdings.
Mark B. Martinelli, CPA
With over 25 years of experience, Mark specializes in strategic merger and acquisition planning for buyers and sellers, strategic business plans, strategic funding plans, and debt or equity finance sourcing. Throughout his career, he held the position of CFO for many private equity funds.
Kevin S. Owens, CPA
Kevin Owens is a partner in our private equity services group, where he focuses on annual financial statement audits and reviews for private equity-owned and closely held businesses. He has extensive experience with financial statement preparation and interpretation, and his technical expertise includes various purchase transactions, leveraged recapitalizations, and consolidation accounting concepts.
Colin Johnson
Colin Johnson is a director with over 15 years of investment banking and consulting experience. He has advised on more than $1B of transactions across the manufacturing and distribution, product engineering and design, software as a service (SaaS), health care and market research industries. Colin focuses on advising private middle market companies and their shareholders on mergers and acquisitions, valuation, transition, and strategic planning matters.
Ben Smith, CPA, ABV
Ben Smith provides advisory services to middle-market, closely held clients in a variety of sectors, including high-technology, manufacturing, and distribution. He specializes in financial reporting and analysis, financial and tax due diligence, and quality of earnings studies.
