Lincoln International

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Lincoln International is an independent investment bank 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. Lincoln International provides a variety of advisory services including mergers & acquisitions, minority growth capital, debt advisory, restructuring advisory, valuations and opinions and joint ventures & partnering. The firm completed more than 165 advisory assignments globally in 2016, as well as over 3,000 valuations.

The firm, which is based in Chicago, Illinois, was founded in 1996. The company operates offices in North America (Dallas, Los Angeles, New York and San Francisco), Europe (Amsterdam, Frankfurt, London, Madrid, Milan, Moscow, Munich, Paris, Vienna and Zurich), Asia (Beijing, Mumbai, and Tokyo) and South America (São Paulo). Areas of expertise include the following: Technology, Media & Telecom, Healthcare, Consumer, Business Services, Industrials and Energy & Power.

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History

The firm was founded by Rob Barr and Jim Lawson, as well as Ed Hanlon and 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, which was acquired by UBS in 2000. Lincoln was named after the 16th President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln.

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 September 2017, Lincoln International has over 450 employees.