Jim Myers leads the M&A practice at Inglewood and sits on the firm's Executive Board. He is the advisor lower middle market owners call when a transaction has to be right the first time — an acquisition, a carve-out, an integration, or a turnaround where the numbers and the operations both have to hold. With more than 18 years of hands-on leadership in acquisitions, integrations, operational turnarounds, and real estate-based consulting, Jim has led multiple business acquisitions and scaled the operating companies behind them, not just modeled them on paper.
His edge is a rare pairing: the instincts of a buyer and operator layered on top of 16 years of institutional experience in commercial finance and risk management. Jim specializes in guiding lower middle market companies through complex transactions, due diligence, restructuring, and strategic growth initiatives — bringing discipline to the deal and follow-through to the integration that most advisors leave to someone else.
He has run advisory engagements across real estate, logistics, and distribution, sectors where working capital, physical assets, and margins move fast and mistakes compound. That operating fluency lets Jim structure deals that survive contact with the business, and diligence that surfaces the risk before it becomes a write-down.
Jim's earlier career includes leadership roles at GE Capital, National City Bank, and the Federal Reserve Bank, where he built deep expertise in financial analysis, deal structuring, and portfolio evaluation. He holds an MBA from the University of Pittsburgh and brings a practical, analytical, solutions-driven approach to helping business owners navigate hard problems and unlock value.
Core experience
- Leads Inglewood's M&A practice; member of the firm's Executive Board
- 18+ years leading acquisitions, integrations, and operational turnarounds
- 16 years of institutional commercial finance and risk management experience
- Advisory engagements across real estate, logistics, and distribution
- Earlier leadership at GE Capital, National City Bank, and the Federal Reserve Bank
- MBA, University of Pittsburgh
Core Disciplines
Where Jim goes deep
Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A)
At Inglewood, M&A is led by operators who have bought and run companies, not just papered deals. Jim Myers heads the practice, guiding lower middle market buyers and sellers through valuation, deal structuring, and negotiation with the discipline of someone accountable for the result afterward. Drawing on years of deal structuring and portfolio evaluation earned at GE Capital and National City Bank, he builds transactions that hold up when they meet the real business — aligning price, terms, and financing with what the operation can actually deliver.
Post-Merger Integration
Integration is where most acquisitions win or fail, and it is a discipline Inglewood treats as seriously as the deal itself. Jim Myers has led multiple integrations, bringing acquired operations, teams, and systems together without losing the momentum that justified the purchase. He works the practical seams — people, processes, working capital, and reporting — so the combined company captures the value the model promised, converting a signed transaction into a stronger, scalable operating business.
Operational Turnarounds
A turnaround at Inglewood means senior people taking hold of a distressed situation and steadying it, not writing recommendations from the sidelines. Jim Myers pairs 18-plus years of hands-on operating leadership with a lender's grounding in risk management to stabilize performance, restructure where needed, and rebuild a credible path forward. He focuses on cash, root-cause operational fixes, and decisions owners can act on immediately, restoring both the numbers and the confidence of the stakeholders around them.
Transaction Due Diligence
Diligence at Inglewood is designed to surface risk before it becomes a write-down. Jim Myers brings a lender's rigor from 16 years in commercial finance and risk management, plus an operator's eye for what actually drives a business. He pressure-tests financials, operations, and deal assumptions across sectors like real estate, logistics, and distribution, giving buyers a clear-eyed view of quality of earnings, exposures, and integration risk so they enter transactions with confidence rather than surprises.
Commercial Finance & Risk Management
Inglewood's financial advisory is anchored in real institutional credit and risk expertise, and Jim Myers embodies it. Sixteen years across GE Capital, National City Bank, and the Federal Reserve Bank shaped his command of financial analysis, deal structuring, and portfolio evaluation. He applies that lender's discipline to lower middle market clients — structuring financing, assessing exposures, and framing decisions the way capital providers do — so owners approach growth, transactions, and distress with the credibility and clarity that funding and negotiation demand.
Real Estate-Based Advisory
Real estate-based consulting is a distinct thread in Jim Myers's practice at Inglewood, informed by hands-on advisory work across real estate, logistics, and distribution. He understands how physical assets, financing structures, and operating margins interact, and how that shapes value in a transaction or a turnaround. Jim advises owners and investors on the deals and decisions where property and operations are intertwined, structuring engagements that account for the asset, the balance sheet, and the business running on top of it.
From Jim
Insights & commentary
Turnaround & RestructuringMost companies wait too long to call. Here's the moment they should have.
Most owners call a turnaround firm only after the decision has been made for them. Here are the financial, operational, and crisis warning signs — and the moment to act while you still have options.
Turnaround & RestructuringFewer Banks, More Workouts: What Regional Consolidation Means for Borrowers in 2026
How 2026 regional-bank consolidation and the commercial debt maturity wall are reshaping middle-market borrower relationships, deal flow, and special-assets workout activity — and the three moves borrowers should make now.
Firm NewsInglewood and Hanna Commercial Announce Cross-Servicing Agreement for Buy-Side and Sell-Side Advisory
Jim Myers joins Hanna Commercial to lead its Business Advisory division as the firms sign a cross-servicing agreement pairing their complementary services.
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