M&A and Capital Markets Outlook Panel

Jim is Managing Director at Graham Healthcare Capital and has been with the company since inception. He has twenty years of experience as an investor, investment banker, and financial consultant. At Graham, he is responsible for overseeing the deal process from sourcing to close and for post-transaction portfolio support.

His experience also includes membership at 2nd Generation Capital, LLC, where he spent much of his time advising small enterprises on financial strategy, helping clients raise debt or equity capital, and developing relationships with private equity, mezzanine, and debt capital providers throughout the country.

Jim also founded Southeast Acquisition Capital, a company designed to facilitate business ownership transition in the Southeast. Previously, Jim worked for Mars in its Financial Management Development Program and at Fannie Mae in a data analytics role during the housing market downturn and government conservatorship.

He is currently Treasurer of the Association of Corporate Growth (ACG) Tennessee. Jim graduated cum laude from Princeton University and received his M.B.A. from the Owen Graduate School of Management, where he was Beta Gamma Sigma with concentrations in Finance, Accounting, and Strategy.

Jeff Nahley is a 30+ year investment banker who started his career in the New York Corporate Finance Group with Bankers Trust Company (BT) in 1986. During his seven years with BT, Jeff completed a variety of Debt financing, High Yield, M&A and Advisory assignments. Before moving to Nashville, TN in 1993, Jeff was a Vice President in BT’s New York Mergers & Acquisitions group. Since moving to Nashville, Jeff has been a Partner/Shareholder and senior Managing Director with three middle market boutique investment banks, Equitable Securities, Avondale Partners and Signal Hill Capital. His investment banking experience includes completion of more than 100 transactions in the Debt Capital Markets, Equity Capital Markets, and Mergers & Acquisitions arena. Jeff joined BoA Securities' Investment Banking Group in July 2019, and is based in Nashville. His practice efforts within BoA primarily focus on Healthcare Services clients and transactions throughout the US.

He is a graduate of Middlebury College and Columbia Business School.

As a senior manager within PYA's valuation services group, Matt provides business valuation and related advisory services for a variety of entities, including physician practice groups, joint ventures, hospitals, and health systems. He has significant experience evaluating compensation and service arrangements between health facilities and physicians. Additionally, he provides litigation consulting services related to lost profits, merger-and-acquisition transactions, wrongful termination, and marital dissolution matters.