Michael E. Collins is a partner and Managing Principal of EquiNova Capital Partners, LLC. Working from our Chicago office, he is focused on sourcing transactions, M&A advisory and executing private equity investments. His industry research includes authoring scores of articles for various publications, covering M&A best practices and trends in the building products industry and macroeconomic environment. Mike is a frequent moderator, presenter and speaker at industry associations, trade shows and online webinars. Mike has nearly 30 years of investment banking, financial advisory and transaction experience.

Mr. Collins began his career in 1995 as an investment advisor at what was then Dean Witter Reynolds. Several years after that company’s merger with Morgan Stanley, Michael was part of a small group of advisors that were invited to join the high net worth client division of Morgan Stanley. In the Private Wealth Management Group, Michael focused on meeting the complex investment needs of entrepreneurs and high net worth families. He joined Jordan, Knauff & Company in 2003, where he sourced and led the successful completion of numerous building products transactions.

Mr. Collins earned his Bachelor of Science in Business Administration degree in Finance from Central Michigan University in 1994. At CMU, he was a member of the first class of Centralis Scholars and studied in Tokyo, Japan. In 2004, he received a Master of Business Administration degree with an emphasis on finance and entrepreneurship from the University of Chicago. He lives in Chicago with his wife and their three children.