About our Company Focused on quality confidential service to middle market companies looking to grow through strategic acquisition, or divest and turn their hard work and equity into cash. Our specialty is finding value, or finding solutions to problems, to optimize a transaction for the Sellers and Buyers we represent. Our principals have performed services involving over 150 acquisition transactions that have enhanced the results for our clients. Transactions completed range from $1 million to $75 million with a concentration in the greater Chicagoland area and the Los Angeles marketplace. The FCA team has the business, tax and financial skills to analyze and strategize solutions for any transaction. We are registered with the Illinois Secretary of State under the Business Brokers Act of 1995. About Mr. Lundstrom, CPA Founder and President of Focus Capital Advisors, Inc., a professional services firm that provides services related to middle market business acquisitions, mergers, valuations and strategic planning. His expertise was developed during a twenty-six year career in Public Accounting as a Partner and Executive Committee member of FERS Business Services, one of the countries largest CPA firms. At FERS he managed the Consulting Division for the Firm and its clients while also providing Strategic Consulting and Due Diligence Investigations to a substantial base of mid-sized businesses. His practice has been focused exclusively on closely held businesses owned and managed by entrepreneurs and the problems and challenges faced by this unique business segment. Specific projects performed through his career include; Strategic Planning & Consulting Mergers, Acquisitions & Divestitures Tax Planning Succession Planning Valuations Financing Business turnaround and crisis consulting Due diligence Business structures Tax conflicts Exit Planning Profit Improvement Programs Compensation Programs Capital formation Corporate Finance Professional Associations and Activities Illinois State University, BS in Accounting in 1974 Certified Public Accountant, University of Illinois in 1975 American Institute of Certified Public Accountants since 1975 Illinois CPA Society since 1975 including Committee and Chapter Volunteer and Co-Chair of Annual M & A Conference Association for Corporate Growth Midwest Business Brokers and Intermediaries (Board Member & Past President) Schaumburg Business Association Northwest Suburban Association of Commerce & Industry (Past President) Annual participation in a variety of continuing professional education programs Authored numerous articles on business issues such as valuation, business structures, tax planning, strategic growth and business succession
