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Sandra Raafat

Senior Associate, Common Trust

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Sandra Raafat is a Senior Associate at Common Trust, where she helps business owners evaluate and carry out employee ownership transitions. She wrote Common Trust’s 2026 case study on the Employee Ownership Trust that Mosaic Capital Partners built into its Southern Shade Tree investment.

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