KPMG Targets Private Equity Funds

KPMG has formed a U.S. Private Equity Group to provide more services from senior partners to private equity funds. The group will help clients with merger and acquisition structuring, due diligence, tax work, audit and advisory services for private-equity funds and portfolio companies, and other transactional assistance.

Donald C. Spitzer, 57 and a 35-year veteran of KPMG, will lead the group as national managing partner - private equity. He said every member of the group is already providing customized services to large funds. Now based in New York, Spitzer previously was Southwest area managing partner for audit, risk and advisory services. He's also been on a national partner- in-charge and an office managing partner, and led development of the Transaction Services practice and the Restructuring Practice of the firm from the mid 1990s to 2001. A quick Web search tells us he's also a 2006 officer of the Boy Scouts of America's Circle 10 Council.

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