David Cahoy

David Cahoy is a senior managing director in the firm’s strategic advisory practice, focused on shareholder activism/raid defense, public company M&A and corporate governance issues.

Notable transactions include the sales of Whole Foods, CoreLogic, GrubHub and Aerojet Rocketdyne; the contested acquisitions of Celgene by Bristol Myers and IAA by Ritchie Bros; the separations of Lockheed Martin’s government services business via RMT and Ingersoll Rand’s security business (Allegion) via spinoff; and the activism/raid defenses of Qualcomm, Nestle, Emerson, Circor, Yelp, Vodafone, Centene, NRG, Ducommun and Henry Schein.

Prior to joining Evercore, Mr. Cahoy was a vice president in J.P. Morgan’s diversified industries group, working on M&A and capital raising across the capital goods, transportation and aerospace & defense sectors.

Mr. Cahoy earned a B.A. in economics from Northwestern University and an MBA from the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business.