Lincoln International


Lincoln International LLC is a multinational independent investment bank and financial services company specializing in advisory services and financings on middle-market transactions. The firm works with publicly traded and privately owned companies, financial sponsors, and lenders. The firm provides advisory services including mergers & acquisitions, capital advisory consisting of growth equity, debt and restructuring advisory, valuations and opinions and joint ventures & partnering. The firm completed more than 225 advisory assignments globally in 2019, as well as over 5,000 valuations.
The firm, which is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, was founded in 1996. The company operates more than 20 offices in North America, Europe, Asia and South America

History

The firm was founded by and , as well as and , as a boutique investment banking firm, Lincoln Partners, in 1996. Barr and Lawson had worked together since 1981 and they began to work with Hanlon in 1988 and Malchow in 1994. Prior to founding Lincoln Partners, the partners spent most of their time working for Paine Webber, which was acquired by UBS in 2000.
Through the late 1990s, Lincoln Partners grew to an organization of approximately 30 people and became a registered broker dealer.
In January 2006, Lincoln International was formed through the merger of Lincoln Partners and Peters Associates, two middle market investment banks based in the U.S. and Germany, respectively, as well as a team from KPMG joining to form a Paris office. At the time of the merger, Lincoln International had offices in Chicago, Frankfurt, New York and Paris. The two firms had previously worked together through a strategic joint venture established in 2005.
As of April 2020, Lincoln International has over 600 employees and is eyeing an IPO in the near future.