2026 ACG NY Family Office & Limited Partner Series | Spring Edition

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Nneoma Maduike, Partner, Holland & Knight 

Nneoma Maduike is a financial transactions attorney in Holland & Knight's New York office. Ms. Maduike focuses her practice on representing many of the largest U.S. and global institutional lenders, regional banks, hedge and private equity funds, commercial finance companies and numerous specialty finance companies in a wide variety of financial matters.

Ms. Maduike has extensive experience structuring, documenting and negotiating secured and unsecured loan transactions, including asset-based and acquisition financings, cash flow and structured finance, syndicated and mezzanine financings, bankruptcy financing, lender finance transactions, loan workouts and restructurings, and portfolio acquisitions and dispositions.

Prior to joining Holland & Knight, Ms. Maduike was a partner in a New York City-based financial services law firm and the co-chair of its lender finance practice. In addition to her finance practice, Ms. Maduike is a leader and advocate for numerous organizations dedicated to advancing women and people of color across a variety of professions. She is a former national director of The Coalition of Women's Initiatives in Law, having previously served as president of board of directors of the organization's New York chapter. As a leader of the committee that established the New York chapter, Ms. Maduike helped develop the organization's presence and commitment to advancing opportunities for women in law. She also was a founding advisory board member and a member of the executive committee for NYC FinTech Women, an organization dedicated to empowering women in the financial technology (FinTech) industry.

Ms. Maduike also is a dedicated contributor to the Sponsors for Education Opportunity (SEO), a pipeline nonprofit organization that enables her to guide and mentor diverse students through their journey from law school into the professional world. She devotes countless hours advising and encouraging emerging lawyers on how to navigate various adversities and to thrive in the profession.

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Corey Massella, Partner, UHY LLP

Corey Massella has more than twenty-five years of experience as an entrepreneur, tax, and business advisor, and as a specialist in SEC accounting and audit services. Additionally, Corey has experience serving as a Private Equity and Technology Industry Group Practice Leader for a Top Twenty accounting firm.

Corey has successfully guided his clients through all facets of the mergers and acquisitions transaction cycle to help them make critical decisions, while ensuring transactions are strategic and seamless. He has deep experience advising private equity funds, hedge funds, banks, broker-dealers, investor relations firms, and various other financial services companies. As a business consultant, Corey has worked with CEOs and CFOs, as well as the boards of both public and private clients. He has performed due diligence and negotiations on both the buy and sell sides. Corey also has experience preparing business plans and initial public offerings (IPO), and with cash flow and productivity analysis to help scale businesses for growth, as well as extensive knowledge and experience in complex tax structuring and planning.

In 2015, Corey was selected as the winner of the SmartCEO award for Industry CPA Leader in New York. He has served as moderator for several conferences, including ACG NY’s “M&A Landscape: Diving into Four of the Hot Industry Sectors” and “The M&A Advisor Summit,” and has authored numerous articles.