Paper, Packaging & Print

Team Leaders

Faiza Ahmed - Analyst (Livingstone London)

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After graduating from Goldsmith’s College, Faiza worked as a financial journalist at Mergermarket. During her time there, Faiza was responsible for originating UK M&A intelligence and has an extensive knowledge of the M&A world. Faiza joined Livingstone in 2008 to work as an analyst in the Industrial and Business Services sector and is currently completing The Securities Institute Certificate in Corporate Finance.

Fletcher Boyle - Associate (Livingstone Madrid/Valencia)

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Following completion of both a Bachelors of Science in Management as well as a Master of Finance degree from the A.B. Freeman School of Business at Tulane University, Fletcher began his career in Investment Banking as an analyst at Brown Gibbons Lang & Co., a Chicago-based M&A boutique. At BGL Fletcher gained experience in both domestic and international transactions across an array of industries. In 2005 he was promoted to senior analyst and began to focus exclusively on cross-border M&A. In 2007, Fletcher joined Livingstone Partners as a member of the team in Madrid, Spain. Fletcher has worked on transactions in a variety of sectors, including industrial products, packaging, consumer products and healthcare services. Sectors: Print & Packaging, Engineering/Industrial Products

B.S.M., MFIN

Graham Carberry - Deal Leader (Livingstone London)

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Graham obtained a BA in English and Linguistics at University College, Durham and has also attained both The Securities Institute Certificate in Corporate Finance and The Securities Institute Diploma. He joined Livingstone in 2005, from the mid-market corporate finance team at KPMG. Since doing so he has successfully completed a broad range of company disposals and private equity transactions. Graham works across a variety of sectors, with a strong emphasis on the Industrial sectors.

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Marta de la Cuadra - Associate (Livingstone Madrid/Valencia)

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Marta has a degree in Business Studies and a Masters in Finance and Stock Exchange. Upon graduating she worked in the management department of a private bank. Since 2002 Marta has worked as an M&A analyst for Livingstone partners. Marta's work is focused on sector analysis, company valuations and project management especially in the food and drink, packaging and consumer products sectors.


Karl Freimuth - Associate (Livingstone Chicago)

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Karl brings nearly five years of corporate finance, transaction and restructuring experience to Livingstone, including work in many industry sectors and both debtor and creditor representation. He was previously a Corporate Restructuring Vice President at Mesirow Financial Consulting and transaction manager at KPMG.

Education: B.S., Stephen M. Ross School of Business, University of Michigan

Patrick Groarke - Partner (Livingstone London)

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Patrick qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Deloitte in Dublin. He then joined multinational fruit distributor The Fyffes Group in London as Special Projects Accountant where he gained extensive operational and corporate finance experience working in the UK, USA and Spain. Patrick has led a significant number of management buy-outs/buy-ins, acquisition and disposal assignments since joining in 1994. He has extensive experience in the food, print & packaging,manufacturing and home and building products sectors. He heads up Livingstone's Private Equity practise and Livingstone's Consumer team.

BCOMM ACA

Scott Hasley - Managing Director (Livingstone Chicago)

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Scott heads the firm’s Packaging, Environmental Hygiene (Jan/San) and Specialty Chemicals practices. He has over 12 years of middle market corporate finance experience across multiple industry sectors, including industrial growth, consumer and business services. Scott was most recently a principal at Piper Jaffray and was previously a director at Brown Gibbons Lang & Company. He began his career in the Leveraged Finance Group at LaSalle Bank (Bank of America).

Education: B.S., Texas Christian University, M.J. Neely School of Business

Alex John - Deal Leader (Livingstone London)

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After graduating from Hatfield College, Durham University with a degree in Natural Sciences, Alex qualified as a chartered accountant with KPMG in London. During his time at KPMG, Alex gained extensive M&A tax and transaction services experience, with a particular focus on property and construction companies. Alex joined Livingstone in January 2007, and works across a variety of sectors.

Phillip McCreanor - Partner (Livingstone London)

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Phillip joined Livingstone in 2006, having previously led Deloitte's Industrial Products team globally and having led transactions for corporate and private equity clients in Europe, the United States, the Middle East and Australasia. He has extensive experience of the Industrials sector, with specific experience of Packaging & Print and Automotive. Phillip co-leads the Industrial team.

Jenny Meister - Deal Leader (Livingstone London)

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Jenny qualified as a Chartered Accountant at PricewaterhouseCoopers after joining the firm from the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa. During her time at PricewaterhouseCoopers, Jenny gained extensive experience in the insurance industry while completing the American Chartered Financial Analyst exams for global investment professionals. In 2006, Jenny joined Livingstone after relocating to London and works across the firm's broad spectrum of sector specializations, with a particular emphasis on retail.

Tamara Scribante - Business Development (Livingstone London)

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Tamara Scribante originally from South Africa, gained her BA (Law) LLB from the University of Stellenbosch in 2000 and then went on to do her professional legal training at the School for Legal Practice in 2001. She then accepted a role at Jennifer Mynhardt Attorneys in South Africa where she trained as a candidate attorney. In 2002, she moved to Dublin where she worked for Zurich Financial Services/Eagle Star as a legal consultant. A year later, Tamara moved to London to work as a paralegal in the litigation department handling a case portfolio of 220 fast and multi-track claims. In 2004, Tamara took on yet another challenge as part of the Livingstone Business Development team and works across the firm's full spectrum of industry sectors specialisations.

BA (Law) LLB