Leader of West Monroe's Global M&A Practice. As the leader of West Monroe’s Mergers & Acquisitions practice, Keith is passionate about creating value in complex transactions and balancing risk while pursuing value creation opportunities. Under his guidance on carve-out transactions across operations and technology functions, clients see an average of 30% reduction in timeline and cost. Keith has led teams on more than 200 private carve-out transactions and uses that knowledge to quickly identify issues and opportunities, estimate standalone costs, negotiate favorable TSAs and execute market differentiating separation approaches, resulting in millions of dollars in value created.
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