Michael Schmidt

Michael Schmidt is a managing director in Evercore’s investment banking business. He is based in Frankfurt, Germany, where he focuses on German-speaking corporate and financial sponsor clients as well as the industrials sector.

Mr. Schmidt has advised clients on a broad range of M&A, capital markets and restructuring transactions. His recent assignments include H.I.G. Capital’s acquisition of TERRAS, Blacklane’s sale to Uber, Nexans’ sale of Autoelectric to Motherson, Forvia’s sale of its interiors business to Apollo and MFE’s acquisition of ProSiebenSat.1.

Prior to joining Evercore, Mr. Schmidt was a director at Lazard. He started his career in the M&A team of Close Brothers.

Mr. Schmidt holds a Diploma in International Business from ESB Reutlingen and an MBA from California State University.