Eduardo Mestre, Senior Managing Director - Evercore

OneWire (www.onewire.com...) interviews Eduardo Mestre, Senior Managing Director of Evercore, in the latest installment to the Open Door video series with Skiddy von Stade.
"At the end of the day, clients still need Wall Street, certainly in terms of raising capital-that's a classical function-and also in terms of advice...the fundamentals are still there, but I think the industry is certainly in transition..and it may be in that state for a while as we get the complete fallout from what was a very difficult time for the industry."
Born in Cuba, Eduardo Mestre immigrated to the United States at age 11 to attend boarding school. After graduating from Yale and earning a JD from Harvard Law School, Eduardo practiced law at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton. From there, he was recruited by Salomon Brothers, a client at the time, where he joined the Corporate Finance team for Latin America. Eduardo eventually rose to become the co-head of mergers and acquisitions at Salomon Smith Barney and then the head of investment banking, where he headed up integration efforts that led to the establishment of Citigroup. Subsequently, he served as Chairman of Citigroup's global investment bank. In 2004, Eduardo joined Evercore, a leading investment banking advisory firm. He currently serves as Senior Managing Director and Chairman of Global Advisory. Eduardo also serves on the boards of Avis Budget Group and Comcast.
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