Overview

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Cary Kochman is Co-Head of Citi’s Global Mergers & Acquisitions Group and serves as the Chairman of the Chicago Office. He is also a member of the Global BCMA Operating Committee. Banking, Capital Markets and Advisory (BCMA) encompasses all corporate and investment banking activities including: coverage, lending, capital raising (debt and equity) and advisory. He has 30+ years of investment banking experience. Prior to joining Citigroup in 2011, Cary was Global Head of M&A for UBS and Co-Head of the Midwest Region. Prior to joining UBS in 2004, Cary served as the Head of the U.S. M&A Department for Credit Suisse.

He holds both his J.D. and M.B.A. from the University of Chicago. While at the University of Chicago, Cary attended the London Business School and undertook a Nikko Fellowship for study in Tokyo. He is a graduate of the Honors College at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Cary is a member of the Illinois Bar and has completed both the C.P.A. and C.M.A. examinations. Cary is a member of the GreenLight Chicago Advisory Board and the Commercial Club. In the past, he has served as an advisory board member (Chicago Booth Council) at the University of Chicago Booth School and as an advisory board member to the University of Chicago Law School. He has also served as a Trustee of CENSA (Council for Emerging National Security Affairs).

Cary Kochman specializes in advising on mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, corporate takeovers and hostile and activist defense. He has completed transactions with an aggregate value in excess of $1 trillion.



Illustrative Transaction Experience:

• American National Group sale to Brookfield
• Allscript’s acquisition of Eclipsys and simultaneous separation from Misys
• Banta Corporation’s White Knight sale to R.R. Donnelley & Sons
• Baxalta’s spin-off from Baxter International & subsequent sale to Shire
• Bucyrus sale to Caterpillar
• Cargill Foundation’s financial advisor with regard to Cargill’s split off of Mosaic & subsequent monetizations (creation of world’s 3rd largest charitable Trust)
• Carrier Corporation’s sale of its stake in Beijer Ref to EQT
• Con-Way’s sale to XPO Logistics
• Deere’s acquisitions of Wirtgen Group & Bear Flag Robotics
• Eaton/Cooper Merger
• Essendant sale to Staples
• Giddings & Lewis’ cross-border white knight sale to Thyssen AG
• Horizon Pharma’s acquisition of Vidara & Hyperion Therapeutics
• ISCAR’s sale to Berkshire Hathaway
• Lear Corporation’s acquisition of Eagle Ottowa
• Pentair’s sale of Valves & Controls to Emerson Electric & acquisition of Thermal Technologies
• Pittsburgh Penguins sale to Fenway Sports Group
• Robbins & Myers’ sale to National Oilwell Varco
• Rockwell Collins’ sale to United Technologies
• S.C. Johnson’s acquisitions of DowBrands & Drackett
• Schneider Electric’s acquisition of Larsen & Toubro
• Shire PLC’s sale to Takeda (largest ever outbound Japan deal)
• Tim Horton’s sale to Burger King / 3G
• URS sale to AECOM
• Verint’s Merger with Comverse Technology
• Whitman’s acquisition of Pepsi Americas
• Zimmer Holdings’ cross-border hostile takeover of Centerpulse AG