Rocky Pontikes
Managing Director
Investment Banking

Chicago, IL
+1 312.595.6821

Areas of Focus: Merger and Acquisition Advisory, Buy-Side Advisory, Debt and Equity Capital Raising, Fairness and Solvency Opinions, Restructuring, Leveraged Corporate Finance

Profile:
  • Leads investment banking and corporate finance engagements involving mergers and acquisitions, private equity and debt financings, corporate restructurings (in- and out-of-court), special committee representations, board advisories and fairness/solvency opinions
  • Coordinates investment banking coverage of private equity sponsors
  • Clients include family-owned businesses, private equity firms and publicly traded companies
  • Transactions have included work with industrial and diversified manufacturing, business services, consumer, distribution and paper, plastics and packaging organizations
  • Previously an investment banker in the global investment banking division at Merrill Lynch & Co. providing corporate finance, merger and acquisition and public and private capital services to growth-oriented companies
  • Holds Series 7 and 63 licenses
Education:
  • B.S., University of Pennsylvania
Affiliations:
  • Broader Urban Involvement and Leadership Development, Inc. (B.U.I.L.D.), Development Council, member
  • The Association for Corporate Growth (ACG), member
  • Turnaround Management Association (TMA), member