Maury J. Bell

MANAGING DIRECTOR

  • 35+ years of transaction experience, including 10 years on Wall Street

  • Principal at DN Partners, a middle market private equity fund

  • Headed M&A group at EVEREN, where he led and completed 25 transactions totaling more than $1.5 billion

  • Managing Director of International M&A at Bear Stearns & Co. where he participated in more than 100 investment banking assignments, including numerous cross-border transactions

  • Board Member of Chinada Holdings and Northfield Industries and formerly on board of various other companies

Maury Bell joined Mazzone & Associates in 2014. As a Managing Director, he focuses on industrial transactions, primarily in the printing, packaging and manufacturing space.

Mr. Bell joined DN Partners as Managing Partner in 1999. Mr. Bell has acted as a General Partner for the firm’s two private equity funds. In that role, he has been involved in identifying, structuring, negotiating, managing and exiting the funds’ various investments. He is currently on the board of Chinada Holdings, and formerly on the Board of Primary Packaging, Inc. and M&M Pump and Supply.

Prior to DN, Mr. Bell headed the M &A Group at EVEREN, where he completed 25 merger and acquisition transactions totaling more than $1.5 billion. Mr. Bell managed the ESOP-buyout of Kemper Securities from Kemper a/k/a EVEREN, the sale of the firm’s Beta Systems subsidiary and the initial public offering of EVEREN Capital Corporation.

Mr. Bell previously was a Managing Director at Bear, Stearns & Co. At Bear, he participated in more than 100 investment banking assignments, including numerous cross-border transactions involving participants from China, the U.K., Sweden, Canada, Germany, Japan, Mexico, Venezuela, France, Belgium and Austria.

Previously, Mr. Bell was employed at Smith Barney and Hershel Rich Investments. In 1983, Mr. Bell authored Swiftax, a home computer software package for income tax preparation, which sold more than one million copies.  

Mr. Bell graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a B.A. in economics from Northwestern University in 1982.