About Sylvia Schultz

At Economic Ground Zero

It’s tough to close a major private- equity leveraged-buyout transaction in a typical year. But 2008 was atypical—brokerage houses were folding and investors were panicking—and Ritchie Taylor closed two deals during the heat of the meltdown at a collective $200 million, representing the seller in both cases. “Because of the chaos in the overall debt market, we were at ground zero of the financial crisis trying to help our clients achieve successful exits despite the economic …