Cary A. Kochman is the Head of the North American Mergers and Acquisitions Group at Citigroup. Cary Kochman also serves as the Co-Head of the Chicago office for Citigroup. He has over 25 years of investment banking experience. Prior to joining Citigroup in 2011, Cary Kochman was Global Head of M&A for UBS and Co-Head of the Midwest Region. Before joining UBS in 2004, Cary Kochman served as the Head of the U.S. M&A Department for Credit Suisse. He worked at Credit Suisse for over 14 years. He holds both his J.D. and M.B.A. from the University of Chicago. While at the University of Chicago, he attended the London Business School and earned a Nikko Fellowship for study in Tokyo. He is also a graduate of the Honors College at the University of Illinois at Chicago where he earned a B.S. in Accounting. He is honored as a distinguished alumn of UIC. Mr. Kochman is a member of the Illinois Bar and has completed both the C.P.A. and C.M.A. examinations. Mr. Kochman serves as a Trustee of the Shedd Aquarium. He is also a member of The Economic Club of Chicago, The Commercial Club of Chicago, The Executive’s Club of Chicago, and lectures at Northwestern University’s MergerWeek. He is an advisory board member (Chicago Booth Council) at the University of Chicago Booth School. He has recently served as an advisory board member to the University of Chicago Law School. He is also a member of the Board of Trustees of CENSA (Council for Emerging National Security Affairs). He is an advisory board member to LEK Strategic Consulting.
Cary Kochman specializes in mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, corporate takeovers and hostile defense. He has completed transactions with an aggregate value in excess of $200 billion.