G.F. Gay LeBreton
Managing Director

GLebreton@Chaffe-Associates.com

"Our job is to secure the best deal for our clients. We pride ourselves on doing just that, efficiently and effectively."

Ms. LeBreton specializes in mergers and acquisitions for the firm, with emphasis in services to privately held companies. She has extensive experience over the past sixteen years in the valuation of companies, and the structuring and negotiation of transactions, having been involved in over $1 billion of completed transactions. Ms. LeBreton also has experience in the areas of takeover defense, capital planning for corporate expansion and private placements of debt and equity.

Ms. LeBreton began her career at Bankers Trust Company in New York. There she was responsible for analysis of the capital needs of the bank in southern Europe, which led to several investments including the opening of one of the first foreign bank branches in Spain since the 1930's. Ms. LeBreton returned to New Orleans in 1980 to join First National Bank of Commerce as an assistant vice president and commercial loan officer. She was then invited to join the Office of the Chief Financial Officer, where she was involved in the negotiation of several bank acquisitions. She joined Chaffe in 1987, working first in the financial institutions group and then in the corporate group.

Ms. LeBreton holds a B.A. from Newcomb College and an M.B.A. from the A.B. Freeman School of Business at Tulane University. She is qualified as an expert witness in U.S. District Court on matters relating to bank and corporate valuation and merger and acquisition process, and has appeared as a speaker on these subjects. Ms. LeBreton is active in community affairs and serves on a number of civic boards.