Lyle Schwartz

Lyle Schwartz is a senior managing director and head of Evercore’s EMEA Equity Capital Markets business, based in London.

Mr. Schwartz advises companies across sectors on public and private equity capital raises. He leads Evercore’s public equity advisory business in EMEA and is responsible for developing the firm’s equity private placements and private investments in public equity (PIPEs) capabilities.

His notable public equity transactions include advising on the IPO of Swiss Marketplace Group, as well as accelerated bookbuild offerings involving Standard Life for Aberdeen, Novartis for Emasan and Boliden. His equity private placement assignments include advising Photonic, Raisin, Klarna, N26, Northvolt, SumUp, AUTO1 Group, Vestiaire Collective, Zepz, wefox, MessageBird, Getir, Back Market, Kry, Huma, Wise, Einride and Infarm on capital raises, among others. Notable PIPE transactions include advising Jumia, Embracer, Yandex, BenevolentAI, Cazoo, Innoviz and Zenga, among others.

Prior to joining Evercore, Mr. Schwartz spent 23 years at Goldman Sachs, working across public and private equity capital markets in North America, South America, EMEA, Asia and Australia, where he most recently led Goldman Sachs’ Alternative Capital Solutions group for EMEA.

He earned a B.B.A. with honours from the Schulich School of Business and a B.A. with honours in political science, both from York University in Canada.