NextGen Breakfast & Learn - After the Deal: Post-Closing Business Integration and Other Issues

Jonathan Berg helps clients efficiently negotiate and structure information technology and other procurement contracts with vendors.  Jonathan understands the real world challenges presented by procurement transactions and provides clients with thoughtful, practical advice. He has specific experience in the areas of information technology, business process and technology outsourcing, mortgage and loan products and services, professional and consulting services, and transportation and logistics and in the banking, automotive, and outsourcing markets.  Jonathan has particular experience with automotive industry clients, having served extended in-house assignments with two major automotive suppliers.  Jonathan is recognized in Michigan Rising Stars 2019 under Business/Corporate and in DBusiness Magazine "Top Lawyers" 2017 under Securities. He serves on the Board of Directors for the Institute for Supply Management Southeast Michigan.

Robert Cambridge concentrates his practice in mergers and acquisitions, securities and general corporate and business law. He regularly represents business clients in structuring and negotiating mergers, acquisitions, and other complex corporate transactions. Robert also advises clients on general business and corporate matters, such as entity selection, formation and governance, and has acted as outside general counsel in the automotive industry. Robert has experience advising companies on capital raising activities and provides counsel on compliance with federal and state securities laws. His work includes fund formation and investment adviser and broker-dealer related matters. Additionally, Robert advises clients with respect to reporting obligations under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.

Jeff’s expertise is assisting clients with planning, managing, and executing complex organizational change. He’s an effective communicator who works with management teams to come up with understandable, actionable solutions to solve problems and ensure successful outcomes. He has experience in transformation advising to both high-performing and underperforming clients ranging from Fortune 500 to privately held middle-market companies. 

Jeff is skilled in organizational change implementation, merger and acquisition integration, program management, process improvement and assessment, financial due diligence, and relationship management. 

His industry exposure includes primarily healthcare, medical device, manufacturing and distribution, and automotive. 

He has a passion for solving problems and helping clients work through difficult situations. 

Emily Bertsche Murto has been involved in the financing and operations of sponsor-backed companies throughout her career. Emily is a Vice President at Stratford-Cambridge Group and is involved with many aspects of the operation of the firm, including evaluating and analyzing investment opportunities, portfolio company management, business development and investor relations.

Previously, Emily worked in Capital Markets at Avant, an online consumer lender, where she was responsible for selling structured finance products to asset managers in the U.S. and China and worked on their securitized products team. Prior to that, Emily worked as an Associate at Ares Management underwriting junior debt and unitranche credit facilities supporting private equity backed transactions primarily in the middle market space across a variety of industries. Emily started her career as an analyst with Bank of America Merrill Lynch’s Investment Banking Division in its Global Industrials Group, where she worked on a broad range of M&A, debt and equity assignments.

Emily graduated with honors from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service with a degree in International Politics. She is also a member of the Detroit Chapter of the Association for Corporate Growth (ACG) and the Women's Forum. In her spare time, she volunteers as a magician at Mott Children's hospital through a non-profit called Open Heart Magic and is an avid runner.