Eduardo Mestre
Eduardo Mestre is a Senior Managing Director and Chairman of Investment Banking at Evercore, and a member of the firm’s Executive Committee. Eduardo was responsible for the day to day management of the firm’s U.S. advisory practice from 2004-2012, and prior to joining Evercore in November 2004, Chairman of Citigroup’s Investment Banking Division. Eduardo was head of investment banking at Salomon Brothers and Salomon Smith Barney from 1995-2001 and co-head of Salomon Brothers’ mergers and acquisitions department from 1989-1995.
Since joining Evercore, Eduardo has been involved in many of the firm’s most important transactions in various industry sectors, including media, consumer, industrials, chemicals and financial institutions. Among others, Eduardo has represented WestRock in its pending merger with Smurfit Kappa; CoreSite in its sale to American Tower; Pattern Energy in its sale to CPP; Comcast in its acquisition of Sky; Pinnacle Foods in its sale to Conagra; Whole Foods in its sale to Amazon; DuPont in its merger with Dow Chemical, its spinoffs of Chemours, Dow, Corteva and Nutrition and Biosciences and its proxy fight with Trian Fund Management; Estee Lauder in its acquisition of Too Faced; and EMC in its sale to Dell.
Eduardo is a past member of the board of Avis Budget Group, Inc. and a past member of the board of Comcast Corporation. He serves as a member of the boards of the International Rescue Committee where he is Chair of the Board of Advisors and the Cuba Study Group. He is past Chairman of the Board of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, one of the nation’s leading cancer, genetics and neuroscience research and educational institutions, and past Chairman of WNYC, New York’s public radio stations. He is also a past trustee of The Taft School.
Prior to joining Salomon Brothers in 1977, Eduardo was an associate with the law firm of Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton. Eduardo graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Yale University in 1970 with a B.A. degree in Economics and Political Science and is a 1973 cum laude graduate of Harvard Law School. Eduardo was born in Havana, Cuba in 1949.