Allan Ellinger

The public face of the leading middle market investment banking firm MMG, Allan Ellinger is the consummate industry insider and effective networker with over fifty years of powerful and trusted relationships throughout consumer products companies and retail brands in the fashion and its many related industries including apparel, footwear, accessories, and home.

Allan provides merger and acquisition counsel and strategic business advice to numerous owners and CEOs of fashion and consumer products companies. Allan’s client and industry relationships include, include among many others, Intradeco Apparel (current Board member), Li & Fung, Centric Brands (formerly GBG), G-III, Randa, PEI, The Peyser Family (Weatherproof), Komar Industries, The Adjmi Family, the Dabah Family, The Tharanco Group, Greg Norman, Byer California, United Legwear, The Forum Group and PEI (Perry Ellis). Allan has unparalleled relationships with the banking and professional community that supports the fashion consumer products industry.

Having started his career in the men’s apparel industry, Allan draws on his diverse industry experience to lead the firm. His broad expertise in the fashion industry includes sales and marketing, manufacturing and international sourcing, financial planning, corporate and trade finance, organizational development, corporate infrastructure, and domestic and international licensing. He has been instrumental in building and evolving the practice from its initial turnaround/restructuring emphasis to one of the pre-eminent full-service M&A firms servicing the fashion and consumer products sector. Since 1989, Allan and the firm have been involved in more than 1,500 engagements.

Prior to building MMG, Allan was President/CEO of Basco All American Sportswear; President of multiple divisions of Bidermann Industries; a Founder and Partner in Alan Flusser Inc.; and a Corporate Vice President/Assistant to the Chairman at Intercontinental Apparel.

As an active fashion insider, Allan is a passionate advocate of social responsibility. He is the Founder and former Chairman of Fashion Delivers which in 2013 merged with K.I.D.S., a charity founded in 1984, to form Delivering Good. Allan was Chairman of the merged charities through 2018 and still is highly active on Delivering Good’s Executive Committee. He has also served on the Board of Big Brothers Big Sisters of New York City’s Accountants & Bankers Division and Fashion Division of UJA Federation of New York. He was the honored by both Big Brothers and Big Sisters and UJA Federation for his philanthropic work. He has taught courses and lectured at fashion colleges and universities and has authored numerous articles regarding the state of the apparel industry.