Michael P. Goldsmith – Managing Director
Direct: 847-579-5006
Michael P. Goldsmith is a co-founder and principal of AEG and a leading investment strategist specializing in general management and the turnaround of distressed investments. Recent AEG engagements include advisor to the debtor for a comprehensive financial restructuring of an auto parts manufacturer and serving as the advisor to a multi-line manufacturer to achieve a consensual capital restructuring. Previously, Mr. Goldsmith served as Group President of Heller Financial Real Estate Finance, founded the $250 million Heller Mezzanine Capital Fund, and headed Heller’s Workout Group. Mr. Goldsmith also worked for Bank of America, where he was responsible for the workout of a $750 million portfolio. Mr. Goldsmith is a member of the Turnaround Management Association, the Urban Land Institute and Association for Corporate Growth. He earned his MBA in Finance and Management from the University of Michigan.
Jude M. Sullivan – Managing Director
Direct: 847-579-5049
Mr. Sullivan, who has more than fourteen years experience as a corporate transactional attorney, joined AEG partners in June 2004. Most recently he served as a consultant to the bankruptcy estate of divine, inc., a Chicago based software and professional services company. Prior to the consulting engagement, Mr. Sullivan served as Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of divine where he was chief counsel and advisor to the board of directors, instrumental in negotiating venture capital transactions through which in excess of $350 million was deployed to more than thirty portfolio companies, and instrumental in the acquisition of more than twenty-five entities in 2001 and 2002.
Prior to joining divine, Mr. Sullivan was a partner in the corporate group at Katten Muchin Zavis and Rosenman, a Chicago based law firm, and was also formerly a partner in the corporate group at Hopkins & Sutter. Mr. Sullivan is an experienced corporate counselor and has managed a variety of complex transactions both as outside and in-house counsel. Mr. Sullivan is a magna cum laude graduate of the University of Illinois College of Law.