About LaQuita
LaQuita Jewett has more than 15 years of experience supporting strategic company initiatives and transactions for private equity firms, global companies and middle market businesses through the pre-sign, sign-to-close and post-close phases of a deal lifecycle for both carve-outs and merger integrations.
Ms. Jewett has diverse experience leading M&A projects, managing more than 60 complex M&A projects and transactions ranging from $25 million to $2 billion in various industries. She has vast expertise in quality of earnings analysis, vendor due diligence assistance, carve-outs, identification of key deal issues and risk areas, assessment of working capital requirements and other key performance indicators, and analysis of financial reporting processes and deal synergies and post-merger integration.
Further, Ms. Jewett has extensive experience leading finance and back-office functions in financial reporting, quarterly reviews, technical accounting and analysis, forecasting and executing special projects.
Relevant Experience:
- Interim Management: Directed the work of Controllership teams (more than 50 professionals) for a $1.9 billion life sciences company publicly listed in the UK and $800 million media, events and research company
- Pre-Sign Due Diligence (Carve-Out): Led Seller due diligence to carve-out and stand-up a $800 million generic drug business from a leading pharmaceutical parent company
- Sign-to-Close Planning (Merger Integrations): Oversaw cross-functional PMO for global integration of $16 billion acquisition of cancer treatment drugs (11 products, approximately 2,200 full time equivalents (“FTEs”)) including restructuring, IT and legal and regulatory costs
- Sign-to-Close Planning (Post-Close Due Diligence): Prepared closing statement including the closing cash, closing indebtedness and closing working capital amounts for $60 million acquisition of a healthcare system in accordance with the Member Transfer Agreement
Certifications
Certified Public Accountant (“CPA”)
Associations
American Institute of CPAs
Education
B.S., Accounting, Howard University
M.B.A., Finance, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Contact
T: +1 212 813 1300
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Office
1166 Avenue of the Americas
15th Floor
New York, NY 10036
United States
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Expertise
Accounting Advisory
Financial Due Diligence
Interim Management
Mergers & Acquisitions Advisory
Merger Integration