About the firm
Established to Give Smaller Transactions the Analysis Larger Ones Take for Granted.
ANZ Consulting LLC was established to provide top-tier advisory services to lower- and middle-market organizations considering strategic transactions — the kind that require extensive support before and throughout the deal lifecycle to drive confident decision-making and transaction success.
Why ANZ exists
The Analysis Should Match the Consequence, Not the Fee Budget.
Transactions in the lower middle market carry consequences that are, for the people involved, absolute. A single acquisition can define a fund's vintage. A single sale can represent a lifetime of an owner's work. The stakes are enterprise-level even when the enterprise value is not.
Those transactions have historically been served either by advisory programs designed for deals many times their size, or by providers who lacked the transaction experience the situation required. ANZ was established to remove that choice: high-quality Big 4 M&A transaction advisory services at a price point reflective of the deal's size and complexity.
The firm leverages extensive deal experience to help clients make informed decisions and manage risk before and throughout the transaction lifecycle. It understands the uncertainty inherent in completing a deal and is committed to helping clients navigate the noise with timely, sophisticated, and reliable advice.
Focus
- Discipline
- M&A transaction advisory
- Market
- Lower and middle market
- Clients
- Private equity and corporate investors
- Base
- Chicago area — Elmwood Park, Illinois
- Approach
- Big 4-caliber, proportionately scoped
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Jeronn Bowser
Founder, ANZ Consulting LLC
Leadership
A Deal Advisor Should Know Which Findings Change the Decision—and Which Merely Add Noise.
Jeronn Bowser established ANZ Consulting to bring Big 4-caliber transaction advisory to a segment of the market that rarely receives it on proportionate terms.
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ANZ's published biography for Jeronn — role detail, transaction-advisory background, years and types of deal experience, buy-side and sell-side history, industries served, transaction sizes, education, and professional credentials — is held for firm confirmation. The current firm website attributes extensive Big 4 experience to the firm without publishing an individual biography, so no employment history, credential, transaction count, or deal value is asserted here. Person schema will be added to this page once the biography is verified.
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Additional team members will be published only where the individual is a real member of the firm and an authentic professional photograph and approved biography are provided. No representative or illustrative people appear anywhere on this site.
How the firm operates
Six Commitments That Shape Every Engagement.
Proportionality
Procedures sized to the transaction. A lower-middle-market deal should receive Big 4-caliber analysis at a price point reflective of deal size and complexity — that premise is the reason the firm exists.
Judgment
The value of an advisor is knowing which finding changes the decision. Length is not rigor. A prioritized set of supported findings beats an exhaustive report nobody finishes.
Confidentiality
Transactions are confidential by default. ANZ does not publish client names, deal values, or results without written approval, and treats every engagement as though it will never be publishable.
Responsiveness
Deal timetables compress without warning. Diligence that arrives after the decision has been made is an expense, not an input.
Continuity
The people who examined the numbers should be available for negotiation, close, and the first hundred days — not replaced by a different team at each stage.
Directness
Findings are written for principals. Where something is uncertain, ANZ says it is uncertain, and says what it would take to resolve it.
If a Decision Is Coming, the Analysis Should Arrive First.
Initial conversations are confidential and carry no obligation.