- Allen L. Shulman, President, Interland
Laura has over 20 years of experience in mergers and acquisitions, split nearly equally between investment banking and corporate development. Laura was a founding employee at Mirus and spent nine years working on new business development, as well as creating offering memoranda and negotiating transactions for clients. She was directly involved in the successful sale of more than a dozen client companies and prepared valuations of client companies in multiple industries. Laura rejoined Mirus Capital Advisors in 2006, after 10 years with Advanstar Communications, Inc., where she perfected her skills at buy side transactions.
At Advanstar, a leading worldwide business-to-business media company, Laura managed the company's acquisition and divestiture programs as Director of Corporate Development. Laura and her team completed more than 40 domestic and international acquisitions, with deal sizes in excess of $200 million, as well as numerous divestitures of non-core assets. Laura was responsible for managing the end-to-end processes for completing transactions, from developing detailed financial models and valuation scenarios for potential transactions, planning and leading the due diligence exercise, and the negotiation of purchase agreements and schedules.
Laura holds an MBA with high honors from Bentley's McCallum School of Business and a BS Magna Cum Laude in Finance and Economics from Bentley University, where she was a member of Beta Gamma Sigma, a business school honor society. Laura is also a member of The Commonwealth Institute and the Association for Corporate Growth . Her article "Thinking About Cashing Out? How to Create Value in Your Business" has been featured in The Commonwealth Institute on line e-newsletter and her published piece titled "Help! Someone Wants to Buy My Company" in the Boston Women's Business newspaper She also is a frequent contributor to the Mirus Viewpoint published both on line and in print. She holds her Series 7 and 63 FINRA certifications.
Laura lives in Westford, Massachusetts with her husband and two teenage daughters. In her spare time, Laura enjoys gourmet cooking, hands-on home improvement projects and volunteering at her church.
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