United Advisory Partners

MAP provides a wide range of marketing and business development services to meet the needs of professional service firms ranging from 5 to 500 professionals. By approaching every engagement with a singular goal – to create a tailored, visionary program, be it market research, sales development, market positioning, or communications planning – we are proud of consistently achieving the results our clients expect, demand and deserve.

An added bonus? We bring our projects in under budget nearly 70% of the time! That matters in today’s competitive and cost-conscious market!

A few of our recent engagements include:

Re-organizing a 40-professional law firm into client-facing industry groups, promoting internal collaboration, maximizing firm relationships, leveraging cross-marketing opportunities, and positioning the firm as a complete solution for complex commercial litigation and commercial business issues.
Serving as the Virtual CMO for a national law firm alliance representing nearly 4,000 lawyers across the United States. Engagement included re-branding of the organization, development of a strategic marketing plan, execution of cross-selling and cross-marketing programs, the launch of a suite of communication tools, and creation of a comprehensive industry group sponsorship and trade show program that generated increased awareness, enhanced credibility, and drove organization sales;
Developing a 4-color magazine and r...

Back in 2008 when the banking system in the United States was in danger of melting down and the economy was sliding into recession, few tools were available to policy makers to prevent a financial catastrophe.


During that fateful period in mid-September, Hank Paulson, Tim Geithner and Ben Bernanke made a series of decisions that laid the foundation for the strengthening of the banking system and the recovery of the economy.

The balance sheet of the Federal Reserve, which had been stable below $1 trillion for some time, swelled sharply to $2.4 trillion as various support programs were implemented. Money kept flowing to enable the economy to grow modestly, and today the Federal Reserve balance sheet has assets of almost $3 trillion, as shown in the chart below. Whereas the balance sheet of the Fed consisted almost entirely of US Treasury securities when it was $1 trillion, today the balance sheet holds substantial amounts of mortgage-related and other lesser-quality securities and financial instruments.

For over fifty years, we've been managing complex financial transactions that maximize value for our customers while earning their trust and building long-term investment banking relationships. Our commitment to remaining independent from any investment or lending affiliates ensures that we deliver unbiased guidance. It also promotes maximum competition among lending sources, helping to fully leverage value for our clients.

The best time to engage United Advisory Partners, Inc. is when you are creating value.. We are knowledgeable and experienced across the spectrum of most business models. From boardroom to backroom, your United Advisory Partners, Inc. principal can be a trusted and effective advisor on a variety of strategic and tactical topics.

WHIPPANY, N.J., April 26, 2012 — /PRNewswire/ — Suburban Propane Partners, L.P. (NYSE: SPH) (“Suburban”), announced that it has reached a definitive agreement with Inergy, L.P. (NYSE: NRGY) (“Inergy”), Inergy GP, LLC and Inergy Sales & Service, Inc. (“Inergy Sales”) to acquire (the “Inergy Propane Acquisition”) the sole membership interest in Inergy Propane, LLC, now owned by Inergy, including certain wholly-owned subsidiaries of Inergy Propane, LLC, and the assets of Inergy Sales (such interests and assets collectively, “Inergy Propane”). At the time of the closing of the Inergy Propane Acquisition, and following certain pre-closing transactions, Inergy Propane will consist of the retail propane assets and operations of Inergy.

NEW YORK & SAO PAULO—(EON: Enhanced Online News)—Last week in Sao Paulo, the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) together with Bank of America Merrill Lynch organized a summit on “Offshore Renminbi Business Opportunities.” This joint effort promoted the use of Hong Kong’s renminbi (RMB) financial platform by Brazilian corporates and financial institutions in conducting their offshore RMB businesses. “As China is one of Brazil’s largest trading partners, the importance of the China-Brazil trade relationship cannot be overestimated. This summit was extremely timely, and we were pleased to involve our clients in a dialogue on how to prepare for the increasing growth of RMB in international trade and investment.” In his keynote presentation, Norman Chan, chief executive of the HKMA, discussed the significance of the Brazilian market to the HKMA and its objectives for the internationalization of the RMB. “Like China, Brazil has seen tremendous growth over the last few years. More and more, these countries are building greater ties to trade and economic development. As one of the world’s most sophisticated banking hubs, Hong Kong offers Brazilian companies the flexibility and numerous options to help conduct their offshore RMB business. This will ultimately facilitate even greater trading and investment opportunities between Brazil and China.”

For over fifty years, we've been managing complex financial transactions that maximize value for our customers while earning their trust and building long-term investment banking relationships. Our commitment to remaining independent from any investment or lending affiliates ensures that we deliver unbiased guidance. It also promotes maximum competition among lending sources, helping to fully leverage value for our clients.

The best time to engage United Advisory Partners, Inc. is when you are creating value.. We are knowledgeable and experienced across the spectrum of most business models. From boardroom to backroom, your United Advisory Partners, Inc. principal can be a trusted and effective advisor on a variety of strategic and tactical topics.

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Randy Schwartzman
Office Business Line Leader-Tax Practice
BDO
Randy Schwartzman is a tax partner with over 20 years of experience in public accounting. He is responsible for financial statement income tax provision reviews, tax planning, tax compliance and tax consulting for clients in the New York Metropolitan area.

Schwartzman has a great deal of experience ranging from publicly-held corporations through closely-held organizations and their shareholders in a broad array of industries, including manufacturing and distribution, retail, insurance, technology, banking and personal service companies. He has a wide variety of experience including domestic and international corporate taxation with specialties in the areas of Mergers and Acquisitions, consolidated tax returns, subchapter S taxation, partnership and LLC taxation, and income and estate tax planning for high net-worth individuals. A frequent speaker at national tax seminars, he is frequently published in magazines such as “The Tax Advisor,” “The CPA Journal.” the “New York State Society of CPAs Newsletter,“ and the BDO “Private Equity Perspective” magazine. Schwartzman is one of the top technical partners in the firm and as a member of its National Corporate Tax Consulting Group is very much involved in tax planning for most major acquisitions, dispositions, spin-offs, IPOs and other restructurings for firm clients. He is also a key m...

Scanning through recent photos of the Ghana Independence celebrations, for the first time, I saw photos of Ghana’s Special Forces. No doubt, these Special Forces looked disciplined and well trained as they marched with high morale and combat readiness reminiscent of North Korean soldiers. I felt very good. I knew right away that with his obvious new found confidence, the President is striking the right notes and making the right decisions for Ghana, including the establishment of the Special Forces Unit and the recent commissioning of four warships for the Ghana Navy.

The fact is that Ghana has always been an important member of the international community- UN contributions, international human resource contributions, African Diaspora, ECOWAS, African Union, top cocoa and gold producer, peace and stability, internationally recognized football nation and many more. With the new discovery of oil, Ghana has become ‘strategically important’ to the international community and now features more prominently on global radars. Ghana’s security architecture must therefore be redesigned to match her new found international status.