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Alejandro Cola
Food & Beverages M&A Advisor
Alejandro Cola is an M&A and strategic advisor specializing in the Food & Beverage industry. With over 18 years of experience in investment banking, he focuses on strategic advisory, mergers and acquisitions (M&A), and capital market transactions, covering areas such as food distribution, ingredients, snacks, plant-based products, and protein verticals.
Some of his notable transactions include advising:
- Food Ingredient Solutions on its sale to Oterra/EQT Partners
- Mizkan on the divestiture of its Green Pepper division to Olam Food Ingredients
- Audax in acquiring Stonewall Kitchen
- Ajinomoto in its acquisition of More than Gourmet
- Vegetable Juices, Inc. during its sale to Naturex (acquired by Givaudan)
- Kerr Concentrates on its sale to Ingredion
He led the Food & Beverage M&A practices at William Hood & Company and Capital One and was a Director at Lazard Middle Market. Alejandro began his banking career at KeyBanc Capital Markets, where he was involved in various transactions, including financing for Chobani, Hain Celestial, and Tyson Foods.
Alejandro has also advised clients across Latin America and was part of the Corporate Finance and Statistics Departments at La Universidad de la República in Uruguay. He holds an M.B.A. from the Owen School of Management at Vanderbilt University and a B.S. in Economics from La Universidad de la República.
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