Mr. Levitt leads and co-founded Park Sutton Advisors, a joint venture company formed with estabalished European Financial group Meeschaert.  Despite challenging market conditions, the M&A market for investment and wealth management firms continues to be surprisingly active.  Well-capitalized financial institutions will be able to take advantage of unique opportunities during 2009-2010.  Independent firms -- from positions of strength and weakness -- will contemplate transactions for varied reasons.  With 13 years of M&A and strategic advisory experience, Mr. Levitt speaks on valuation and transactional activity in the investment and wealth management industry.