John Song

John Song is a senior managing director in Evercore’s strategic advisory practice, with a focus on aerospace & defense. His work in national security spans space, defense technology, defense electronics and government technology and services. With more than two decades of industry experience, he advises companies on mergers and acquisitions, corporate divestitures, public and private capital raising and other strategic matters.

Prior to joining Evercore, Mr. Song was a managing director and co-head of Baird’s defense, space and government group. Previously, he was a managing director and senior member of Houlihan Lokey’s aerospace, defense and government group. He began his career in structured finance, holding positions at Citibank, Bankers Trust and Credit Suisse First Boston.

Mr. Song has advised some of the industry’s leading companies, including Boeing, RTX, Northrop Grumman and Leidos, and has completed transactions with private equity firms including The Carlyle Group, Blackstone, Bain Capital, Veritas Capital and Arlington Capital Partners. Select transactions include advising on RTX’s divestiture of Blue Canyon to MDA; the sale of Ultra I&C to Booz Allen; the sale of GEOST to Rocket Lab; and Boeing’s divestiture of Digital Receiver Technology to Thales. His equity capital markets experience includes follow-on offerings for Kratos and AV and IPOs for Applied Aerospace, Arxis and AEVEX Aerospace.

Mr. Song earned a B.A. from Boston University and an MBA from the University of Chicago.