Corporate finance advisor Duff & Phelps promoted 13 individuals to managing director.

“The advancement of these 13 professionals demonstrates Duff & Phelps’s commitment to strengthen our organization from within,” said Jacob Silverman, president of Duff & Phelps. “These individuals deliver the expertise and high-quality work Duff & Phelps is known for and I wish each of them continued success as they take the next step in their career at the firm.”

Nicholas Clemens, M&A, Chicago
Clemens has more than 11 years of experience in M&A, exclusive sales and divestitures, private placements and recapitalization transactions.

Darren Gange, M&A, New York
Gange has nearly 15 years of investment banking and private equity experience in the middle market and leads the firm’s East Coast Financial Sponsors Group. He has been involved in sourcing and executing private equity investments and portfolio monitoring activities including financial planning and budgeting, debt refinancings and restructurings, management changes and evaluating follow-on acquisitions.

Brian Gore, Valuation Advisory Services, Chicago

Gore is part of the Financial Services industry practice and has nearly a decade of experience in performing valuations of businesses, interests in businesses, assets and liabilities in a variety of industries. His valuation and advisory experience includes financial reporting, corporate tax, litigation and dispute resolution, reorganizations, divestitures and recapitalizations.

Lauryn Haake, Legal Management Consulting, Houston

Haake has over 15 years of experience helping corporate law departments improve performance and efficiencies through technology solutions including contract management, matter management and eBilling applications. She has also implemented entity management systems, compliance and risk management systems and has experience in document management implementations and processes.

Bradley Hileman, M&A, Santa Monica, CA
Hileman has more than 10 years of experience providing investment banking and valuation services. He leads the Financial Sponsors Group and is primarily responsible for building relationships with private equity firms across the U.S. He is also responsible for the generation and execution of M&A transactions and transaction opinions.

Michael Lateur, Property Tax, Austin, TX
Lateur ‘s expertise is related to property tax and business incentive advisory services.

Chris Matteson, General Counsel, New York
Matteson is the assistant general counsel to the firm and is a member of the extended leadership team. As an in-house corporate attorney, he works closely with the firm’s leadership and business leaders.

Laura McNaughton, M&A, Chicago
McNaughton has over 13 years of middle market M&A experience. She specializes in providing sell-side services to family and founder owned businesses and private equity owned companies. McNaughton has experience working with companies in various end markets, including industrial distribution, engineering and construction, heavy industrial products, business services, consumer products and food and beverage.

Margaret Mi, M&A, Hong Kong/Beijing

Mi has nearly a decade of investment banking experience with experience in deal origination and execution of consumer and health care transactions in China and cross-border M&A.

Edward Mielke, M&A, New York
Mielke is part of the firm’s Consumer, Retail, Food and Restaurants group. He has over a decade of experience advising companies in investment banking and corporate strategy and specializes in the execution of mergers and acquisitions, exclusive sales and divestitures, private placements and recapitalization transactions.

Carla Nunes, Office of Professional Practice, Philadelphia

Nunes provides firm-wide technical guidance on a variety of valuation, financial and tax reporting issues. She has over 18 years of experience providing a variety of valuation, financial analysis and tax services. She is also one of Duff & Phelps’ experts in addressing valuation issues related to cost of capital.

Marianna Todorova-Larkin, Office of Professional Practice, Philadelphia

Todorova-Larkin provides technical interpretation and guidance on valuation issues in the context of financial reporting.

Tony Wilcher, Legal Management Consulting, Miami
Wilcher has extensive experience in technology consulting for law firms and corporate legal department technology. He leads the Information Lifecycle Management team and has built a “virtual toolkit of ILM expertise,” having led many of the largest projects in the legal technology industry.