John Vaske

John Vaske is a senior managing director in Evercore’s chemicals strategic advisory group. He has extensive experience advising corporate and private equity clients on M&A transactions, particularly in the chemicals and natural resources sectors.

Select transactions include advising BP on the $9 billion sale of its Innovene business to INEOS; Potash Corporation on its defense against BHP Billiton’s hostile $39 billion takeover bid; Nalco on its $5.4 billion merger with Ecolab; a private equity consortium comprising Blackstone, Apollo and Goldman on its $4.2 billion acquisition of Ondeo Nalco from Suez; Norsk Hydro on its merger with Statoil; Valspar on its $11.3 billion sale to Sherwin-Williams; Monsanto on its $27 billion merger with Pharmacia & Upjohn; and DuPont on its $130 billion merger with Dow Chemical, its proxy contest against Trian Partners and its $5.6 billion acquisition of Danisco.

Prior to joining Evercore, Mr. Vaske was vice chairman and co-head of M&A at Ducera Partners. Previously, he served as chief executive officer of Farmers Business Network and head of the Americas at Temasek, a Singapore-based investment firm. Earlier in his career, he spent nearly three decades at Goldman Sachs, where he held several leadership positions in the firm’s natural resources and M&A groups, most recently serving as co-chairman of global M&A.

Mr. Vaske earned a B.A. in economics from Columbia University. He also serves on the board of PeacePlayers International.