Strategic Transactions in Higher Education

We help colleges and universities navigate acquisitions, mergers, partnerships and strategic alliances — advised by people who have run institutions and closed the deals.ELM2 Advisors is a group of highly experienced academicians and merger and partnership practitioners providing Higher Education Institutions with sound advice as they move through unfamiliar circumstances and transactions. Our wide range of practical experience enables ELM2 Advisors to engage you, your trustees, faculty, and institution in a relationship different from a typical consultant or investment banker. We are academics, higher education trustees, and executives, not bankers. ELM2 Advisors principals have long careers as university faculty members and have all been senior administrators, principals and fiduciaries in our respective businesses and academic institutions. We have experienced many of the challenges you are facing and bring our practical learnings to bear on your institution’s behalf.


Recent Engagement

ELM2 Advisors advised and represented Fielding Graduate University in its merger with Excelsior University — a partnership that preserves Fielding’s distinguished legacy in psychology and behavioral sciences while securing its long-term future.

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