Kenneth A. Csaplar, Managing Director
Mr. Csaplar is a Managing Director and group head of Trenwith Securities, LLC's mergers and acquisitions group. Before founding Trenwith's Boston office, Mr. Csaplar co-managed Andersen's New England Corporate Finance Group. Prior to joining Andersen, he founded and ran Fleet Financial Group's merger and acquisition department and was responsible for sourcing and closing transactions in Fleet's eight-state geographical foot print. While at Fleet, Mr. Csaplar's primary focus was working with and advising owners of privately owned middle-market companies implementing liquidity events through recapitalizations, the sale of their companies, special dividends and leveraged ESOPs.
Prior to joining Fleet, Mr. Csaplar was employed at Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. overseeing the firm's Corporate Finance activities, in the Boston office. During his 13 year tenure at BBH & Co., he negotiated and closed mergers and acquisition transactions including stock and asset sales of middle market and closely held public companies. In addition, he has valued corporate common and preferred stock and has been a panelist in numerous seminars. Prior to joining Brown Brothers, Mr. Csaplar was employed as an investments banker at Lepercq Capital Corp. in New York City structuring sale lease back transactions for large real estate projects with equity interests sold through Drexel Burnham Lambert, Merrill Lynch Capital and Paine Webber Securities.
Mr. Csaplar received a M.B.A. from Cornell University, a M.S. in Taxation from Bentley College, and a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania. He is qualified as a General Securities Representative and a General Securities Principal.