Based in Chicago, King has more than 18 years experience developing and executing M&A transactions, public equity offerings and private placements.
King joins Lazard Middle Market from BMO Capital Markets where he was a managing director for Mergers & Acquisitions in the Education and Business Services sector.
While at BMO Capital Markets, he was responsible for building its M&A franchise in Education and overseeing the transaction execution in the sector. Prior to that, he was at William Blair & Company in its Software and Information Services group and he was a managing director at ABN AMRO.
Lazard Middle Market co-CEO Michael McFadden said Ed has established a national reputation in the education sector. He has deep relationships both within the industry and with financial sponsors.
"We are excited to have him lead our education and training advisory team. Not only does Ed have extensive mergers and acquisitions expertise, but his capital markets experience gives him the ability to offer clients a broad range of solutions," McFadden said.
