Michael B. Barrett

Michael B. Barrett

Mike has over twenty six years of senior management, financial and transaction experience and has worked as an entrepreneur, senior manager and intermediary for mergers and acquisitions over that period. Mike specializes at both buy-side and sell-side representation for mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures of operating businesses and real state. With consideration for tax implications, he also brings value to business planning, management and implementation of lease, sale and exchange transactions. Mike also has considerable experience in structuring shareholder agreements, incentive stock option plans and executive compensation packages. Specializing in sales and marketing, Mike has also structured and written sales compensation packages and organized and managed sales teams on behalf of his clients.

In 1981 Mike earned a B.S. in Business Administration and Philosophy from the Whittemore School of Business and Economics at the University of New Hampshire. Initially Mike became a leasing agent and property manager for General Investment and Development Company in Boston. At that position Mike excelled at marketing of large apartment complexes throughout the suburban Boston Area as a property manager.

In 1983 Mike founded Briggs Associates, Inc., a commercial/industrial real estate firm with offices in Boston, Massachusetts and Manchester, New Hampshire. Briggs specialized in commercial and industrial property management, the leasing of office, R&D and industrial properties owned by a variety of clients including corporations, REITs, Limited Partnerships and private investors. Mike also specialized in the sales of office, R&D and industrial properties, apartment complexes, and land for development. During the six year period, Mike transacted over one million square feet of lease transactions and over $80 million in sales of land, office, R & D, industrial and multi-family residential properties.

In 1988 Mike founded SB&T Commercial Real Estate in Burlington, Vermont, specializing in the management and brokerage of commercial, industrial and investment properties where over a period of two years he executed over fifty sales and leasing transactions.

In 1990 Mike founded Vermont Waste and Recycling Management, Inc. (VWRM), a solid waste management company, with the initial acquisition of a collection company. Over the course of the next six years, Mike made nine additional acquisitions building a company with over twenty five routed collection vehicles and over seventy five employees. In 1996 Mike consummated the merger of VWRM with Casella Waste Systems, Inc. (CWS) as part of Casella's IPO strategy.

In 1997 After the Casella merger, Mike founded Briggs Capital, Inc., a merger and acquisition and corporate growth advisory firm focusing on the lower middle market in New England and New York State. Subsequently, Mike has executed over fifty transactions totaling over $100 million in the waste management business and over fifteen transactions in various other industries totaling over $50 million. Mike has provided advisory services for a wide variety of industries such as manufacturing, solid waste management, liquid waste, pipe and catch basin services, building and industrial process controls, trucking, equipment leasing, sales and service, construction, direct response telemarketing, medical and surgical supply, medical billing and group practice management software, car washes, fuel sales and convenience stores and franchised automotive lube centers.