Lincoln International LLC is a multinational
independent investment bank
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and
financial services company specializing in advisory services and financings on
middle market transactions. The firm works with publicly traded and privately owned companies, financial sponsors (private equity, venture capital, family offices, and hedge funds), and lenders. The firm provides advisory services including
mergers & acquisitions
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capital advisoryconsisting of growth equity, debt and restructuring advisory
valuations and opinionsprivate funds advisory
and joint ventures & partnering. The firm completed more than 400 advisory assignments globally in 2021, as well as over 10,000 debt and equity valuations.
The firm, which is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois
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, was founded in 1996. The company operates through 23 offices in North America (Atlanta
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, Chicago
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, Dallas
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, Los Angeles
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, Miami
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, New York and San Francisco
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), Europe (Amsterdam
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, Brussels
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, Frankfurt
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, London
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, Madrid
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, Milan
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, Munich
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, Paris
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, Stockholm, Vienna
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and Zurich), Asia (Beijing
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, Mumbai
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, Bangalore
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and Tokyo
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) and South America (São Paulo
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History
The firm was founded b
Rob Barr
an
Jim Lawson
as well a
Ed Hanlon
an
Eric Malchow
as a boutique investment banking firm, Lincoln Partners, in 1996. Barr and Lawson had worked together since 1981 and they began to work with Hanlon in 1988 and Malchow in 1994. Prior to founding Lincoln Partners, the partners spent most of their time working for Paine Webber
PaineWebber & Co. was an American investment bank and stock brokerage firm that was acquired by the Swiss bank UBS in 2000. The company was founded in 1880 in Boston, Massachusetts, by William Alfred Paine and Wallace G. Webber. Operating with t ...
, which was acquired by UBS in 2000.
Through the late 1990s, Lincoln Partners grew to an organization of approximately 30 people and became a registered broker dealer.
In January 2006, Lincoln International was formed through the merger of Lincoln Partners and Peters Associates, two middle market investment banks based in the U.S. and Germany, respectively, as well as a team from KPMG joining to form a Paris office. At the time of the merger, Lincoln International had offices in Chicago, Frankfurt, New York and Paris. The two firms had previously worked together through a strategic joint venture established in 2005.
As of December 2022, Lincoln International has over 850 employees and is eyeing an IPO in the near future.
References
Lincoln International Focuses On U.K. PE
Investment Dealers Digest, May 15, 2009
While Others Shrunk,. Lincoln International Grew
Reuters Buyouts
IDD Magazine, January 19, 2010
Day in the Life: Lincoln Partners
Monroe Street Journal (Stephen M. Ross School of Business) Feb 10, 2003
External links
Lincoln International
(company website)
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