Our Team

Jim Tilson

  • Managing Director
  • Investment Banking
  • Private Capital Advisory & Fundraising
  • New York

Jim Tilson is a managing director in Evercore’s Private Capital Advisory group.

He is responsible for originating and advising financial sponsors on strategic alternatives available to them in the secondary market. Mr. Tilson has advised clients across a range of transactions, representing numerous market-leading sponsors on continuation funds, LP tenders, recapitalizations, capital raises and other liquidity solutions. He also has experience advising limited partners, including pension funds, insurance companies and asset managers on secondary transactions.

Prior to joining Evercore, Mr. Tilson was a member of the secondary advisory team within the private funds group at UBS.

Mr. Tilson graduated magna cum laude with a B.A. in economics from Middlebury College.