Lauren Hennelly

Lauren joined Exbo Group in 2021 and is a Vice President on the Transaction Services team, where she helped build the practice and leads a team across the U.S. and India. She has advised on more than 200 transactions representing over $2.5 billion in aggregate deal value, working with private equity firms, venture capital and growth investors, and independent sponsors on the buy side, as well as founders preparing for a sale. Her team serves as the exclusive diligence provider for the full deal flow of several private equity-backed platforms, and she also leads venture diligence for growth investors. Lauren focuses on software and tech-enabled services companies, with deep experience in SaaS, payments, and vertical software.

Her work covers every stage of a deal. Lauren leads financial due diligence and quality of earnings engagements. She advises clients on purchase price structuring, indebtedness, net working capital mechanics, and works directly with deal counsel on purchase agreement language and financial definitions. After close, she handles ASC 805 purchase price allocations, opening balance sheets, and multi-entity structuring, and gives clients audit-ready financials and technical memos. A growing share of her work is cross-border, including multinational deals across Europe, where she works through local accounting standards, multi-currency reporting, and multi-jurisdiction entity structures to give U.S. and European buyers a consistent view of the business.

Lauren began her career at Deloitte, where she worked on large-scale M&A audits for multinational investment banks. She holds a BBA and an MS in Accounting from the University of Miami and is a licensed CPA in New York.

Relevant Deals

• Represented First Street in its $120 million sale to MSCI Inc. (NYSE: MSCI)

• Commerce7's acquisition of WineDirect's software division

• Aquiline-backed Fullsteam's acquisition of GroundWidgets, a nine-entity software platform

• Everfield's acquisition of Genero, its first acquisition in Sweden

• Aquiline's $20 million Series A investment in Upside

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