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Erik Olson

Senior Manager

Erik leads the firm’s Transaction Advisory Services practice and delivers quantitative horsepower and strategic counsel to clients who need to design, develop, and deliver on many types of strategic investment activities, corporate finance transactions, and M&A initiatives.

Erik has a 20-year career transacting with companies in both debt and equity markets with a focus on project finance, M&A, and growth capital. Day to day, he provides strategic advice to companies, business owners, and investors regarding growth through acquisition, capital structuring and raising, and other bespoke transaction advisory services where complexity and capital intersect.

Erik leads the firm’s Transaction Advisory Services practice and delivers quantitative horsepower and strategic counsel to clients who need to design, develop, and deliver on many types of strategic investment activities, corporate finance transactions, and M&A initiatives.

Erik has a 20-year career transacting with companies in both debt and equity markets with a focus on project finance, M&A, and growth capital. Day to day, he provides strategic advice to companies, business owners, and investors regarding growth through acquisition, capital structuring and raising, and other bespoke transaction advisory services where complexity and capital intersect.

Experience highlights

Erik has worked with family-owned businesses, high net worth investors, sponsor-backed middle market firms, and corporations where he was responsible for origination, underwriting, closing, and participation and/or syndication. On behalf of clients and their boards, he interfaces with banks, law firms, investment banks, and institutional investors. He also advises energy, C&I, and natural resource clients on deploying capital through various economic cycles.

Erik advises clients in a number of areas, including:

  • M&A: Quality of Earnings, due diligence support, transaction analysis
  • Corporate: Strategic advice and finance support
  • Capital: Balance sheet management and debt and equity raise processes
  • Project finance: Planning, project execution, and compliance
  • Investment: Thesis generation, policy construction, deployment, and review
  • Venture: Start-up company support and pre-IPO readiness

Community service

  • Maine Center for Entrepreneurs, Volunteer
  • Good Shepherd Food Bank, former Board Member/Treasurer and Audit Chair
  • Association for Corporate Growth

Related Services

Consulting

Business Advisory

Transaction Advisory

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Education

BS, Maine Maritime Academy

MBA, University of Maine

“BerryDunn’s Valuation Services Team is a professional powerhouse. We were truly impressed with the level of detailed analysis, critical thought and consistent communication that yielded important insights as we navigated our largest private acquisition to date. We were grateful to have an immediately responsive team lead who was able to bring in subject matter experts as needed to uncover and analyze all facets of the business and ultimately synthesize those findings into a clear, digestible, and accurate valuation report. We look forward to working with this all-star team on our next transaction and confidently recommend that others put their trust in their capable hands.”
 
Kir Harris
Acquisitions Lead
Mastway, LLC

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