John Pancetti

John is a Director in Accordion’s Transactions practice with over a decade of M&A execution experience spanning both consulting and corporate environments. He advises private equity sponsors and management teams on buy-side and sell-side transactions, specializing in standalone cost analysis and modeling, transition service agreement (TSA) design, negotiation, and management, entanglement assessments, and post-close operating model development aligned to the investment thesis.

Additionally, John leads integration management and separation workstreams, orchestrating cross-functional execution across all functional teams. He also develops synergy models and one-time cost tracking tools for both buy-side and sell-side clients and brings depth in Day 1 and Day 100 readiness planning, back-office stand-up, and program governance.

Prior to Accordion, John served as Manager of Integrations, Carve-outs, and Separations at Wolters Kluwer, where he oversaw this work across multiple divisions and built the company’s enterprise divestiture playbooks, frameworks, and training programs. He began his career in M&A Strategy and Performance Improvement consulting at EY-Parthenon and Deloitte Consulting.

John holds a B.A. in Management from Pace University’s Lubin School of Business.