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Champ W. Davis III
Mr. Davis has significant experience providing investment banking services to clients in a wide variety of manufacturing, distribution and service industries. His clients have ranged from closely held private companies to large cap publicly-traded corporations. Mr. Davis has advised clients on mergers & acquisitions, financial restructurings and private placements of debt and equity. In addition, he has advised clients on structuring and financing ESOPs, recapitalizations, leveraged buyouts, management buyouts, going-private transactions and has provided complex financial analysis for the rendering of fairness and solvency opinions.
Mr. Davis has authored and co-authored numerous investment banking presentations to both professional and industry associations. Recent presentations include Accurately Valuing the Target Company’s Worth, presented to The 2nd Annual Metals Industry Mergers & Acquisitions Forum – Doing the Right Deal at the Right Time, Understanding Transactions from a Seller’s Perspective, presented to The Fifth Auto Parts Industry Mergers & Acquisitions Institute and Selling a Troubled Company: Issues and Techniques presented to the Executive Institute.
In addition, Mr. Davis has delivered presentations to numerous educational institutions, including the University of Chicago’s Graduate School of Business and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Sloan School of Management and has provided classroom and case study material for MBA courses at the University of Chicago. He also recently served as an investment banking instructor and panelist for the TMA’s 13-week cash flow workshop presented in the Gleacher Center at the University of Chicago’s Graduate School of Business.
Mr. Davis was most recently a Managing Director of Stout Risius Ross and a founding member of the firm’s Chicago office where he played an integral role in the firm’s growth. Prior to SRR, Mr. Davis was with Houlihan, Lokey, Howard & Zukin, where he specialized in mergers & acquisitions, corporate finance, and financial restructurings. Preceding his experience at Houlihan Lokey, Mr. Davis served in the investment banking group of The Chicago Corporation (subsequently ABN AMRO) where he provided merger & acquisition and corporate finance advisory services to both public and private investment banking clients. Mr. Davis earned a Master’s degree from Indiana University’s Graduate School and a Bachelor’s degree from the university honors division at Indiana University’s School of Business and has completed a variety of continuing education and postgraduate coursework, including the Program on Negotiation at Harvard University and the AMAA’s certification program for Merger & Acquisition Advisors at Northwestern University.
Mr. Davis is currently on the Board of Directors for the Alliance for Merger and Acquisition Advisors, is a member of the Association for Corporate Growth, the National Funding Association, the Business Valuation Association, the Turnaround Management Association, the Illinois CPA Society, he also currently serves on the Finance Committee for the National ESOP Association and is a past Board Member of The Entrepreneurship Institute (Chicago Chapter).
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