Private company | |
Industry | Investment banking |
Predecessor | Lincoln Partners Peters Associates |
Founded | 1996 |
Founder | Robert B. Barr, Jim Lawson |
Headquarters | Chicago, Illinois, United States |
Products | Mergers & Acquisitions, Fairness opinions, Restructuring advisory, Joint Ventures & Partnering |
Number of employees
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400+ |
Website | www.lincolninternational.com |
Lincoln International is an independent investment bank specializing in advisory services and financings for middle-market companies. The firm provides a variety of advisory services including mergers & acquisitions, fairness opinions, debt, restructuring advisory and Joint Ventures & Partnering. The firm completed more than 165 advisory assignments globally in 2015.
The firm, which is based in Chicago, Illinois, was founded in 1996. The company operates additional offices in Beijing, New York, Dallas, Frankfurt, Paris, Los Angeles, London, Amsterdam, Madrid, Milan, Moscow, Mumbai, São Paulo, Tokyo, Vienna and Zurich, with strategic partnerships with firms in China and South Korea.
The firm was originally founded by Robert B. Barr and Jim Lawson as a boutique investment banking firm, Lincoln Partners, in 1996. The two co-founders of Lincoln Partners had worked together from 1981 through 1990 in the Mergers and Acquisitions Department of Paine Webber. In 1990, they left Paine Webber to start up the Chicago office of Peers & Co. where they remained for six years. The firm was named after the 16th President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln.