Lyle Schwartz

Lyle Schwartz is a senior managing director based in London and leads Evercore’s EMEA Equity Capital Markets group.

Mr. Schwartz focuses on advising companies and investors across sectors on public and private equity capital raises.

His notable public equity transactions include the IPO of Swiss Marketplace Group, stake selldowns in Novartis and Boliden’s acquisition of mining assets from Lundin. His equity private placement assignments include advising Photonic, Sennder, Raisin, Klarna, N26, SumUp, Auto1 Group, Vestiaire Collective, Zepz, MessageBird, Back Market, Kry, Huma, Wise and Einride on capital raises. Select PIPE transactions include advising Embracer, Yandex, Innoviz Technologies and Zenga.

Prior to joining Evercore, Mr. Schwartz spent 23 years in public and private equity capital markets at Goldman Sachs across North & South America, EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa), Asia and Australia, where he led the alternative capital solutions group for EMEA.

Mr. Schwartz earned a B.B.A. with honours from the Schulich School of Business and a B.A. with honours in political science, both from York University in Canada.