J. Stuart Francis is set to join Evercore’s investment banking business as the senior managing director in its technology group.
He will resume his role from August, and would be based in Menlo Park, California.
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Francis has worked with Barclays since 2008 as its vice chairman of investment banking and chairman of the global technology group.
Before that, he was with Lehman Brothers as its vice chairman and then later, chairman for the Lehman Brothers Global Technology Group, since 2003. He also served as the head of the global technology group at Lehman Brothers from 1991 to 2003.
Francis’ recent activities included advisory services to Qualcomm on the sale of Omnitracs division to Vista Equity Partners and sale of BWA division to Bharti. He also advised Google on the sale of its Motorola cable TV set top box business to Arris.
He further served as joint book runner for Facebook on its $16bn IPO, its $4bn equity follow-on offering, and $6.5bn credit facility.
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By GlobalDataEvercore executive chairman Roger Altman said "Since inception, Evercore’s business philosophy has been summarized in the same two words: excellence and integrity. It would be hard to find a senior banker who better epitomizes these attributes than Stu Francis, and that’s why we are so excited to have him join us."
Francis is an MBA graduate from Stanford’s Graduate School of Business. He completed his BA from Princeton University.
