John Guzzo is a Managing Director of Berkery Noyes, specializing in the Financial Services group. He was named to that position in December 2009 after joining the firm as Vice President in 2005. He previously spent eleven years in investment banking and financial services at Giuliani Capital Advisors (formerly Ernst & Young Corporate Finance) and Ernst & Young. In addition to his investment banking background, John has also performed tax due diligence and structuring of merger and acquisitions transactions within the Financial Services industry.

During his tenure at Berkery Noyes, John has worked on several notable transactions, including the investment in Mortgage Cadence by Monitor Clipper Partners; the sale of Tradeware Global to SS&C Technologies; the acquisition of Need to Know News by the Deutsche Borse Stock Exchange; the sale of Versa Systems to Iron Data; the sale of UpToDate to Wolters Kluwer; the sale of Princeton Media Associates to HMP Communications and NACCME; the sale of HCPro Holdings, Inc. to Halyard Capital; the sale of The Gordian Group to The Wicks Group; the sale of CenterWatch/NEIRB, a division of Thomson Healthcare, to Jobson Medical; the sale of HMP Communications to Alta Communications; the recapitalization of Asset Control by Fidelity Ventures; the sale of Endeavor Information Systems Inc., a division of Reed Elsevier, to Francisco Partners; the sale of The Teaching Company to Brentwood Associates; and the divestiture of a division of Standex International sold in three parts, including a publisher, direct marketer and retailer.

John is a Certified Public Accountant, holds Series 7 and 63 Licenses, and received his MBA from Columbia Business School.

John D. Guzzo, Managing Director
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