Member of Oakbrook Terrace firm receives award

An Americas Rising Star Dealmaker Award from M & A Atlas has been given to Tom DeSimone of Prairie Capital Advisors based in Oakbrook Terrace. Prairie Capital Advisors is a corporate investment and advisory banking firm.

Brilliant dealmakers are honored by the Americas Rising Star Dealmaker Award for their excellence, dedication, closing of value-creating transactions, and embodiment of those qualities of leadership that shape the future of deal making in the industry. Announcements of such awards are often made known throughout a community with poster printing.

DeSimone has worked at Prairie Capital for the past 10 years and leads several initiatives and teams. He is a CPA and has extensive experience in mergers and acquisitions, employee stock ownership plans (ESOP) for middle-market companies, corporate valuation, financial opinions, and other services related to investment banking advising. He also works with companies and boards of directors on mature ESOP planning and sustainability.

He attended the University of Illinois at Chicago and holds both a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in accounting. He also holds FINRA Series 63 and 79 securities licenses.

Managing director and COO of Prairie Capital, Rocky Fiore, said that DeSimone has played an important role in the success of the firm as it continues to be a leading ESOP advisory firm and middle-market investment bank. Fiore expressed his pride that DeSimone has been recognized with this award.