Webinar: Open up the PIPEs: Current Market Considerations

Pillsbury M&A partner Jarrod Murphy has extensive experience advising public and private companies and private equity sponsors (including their portfolio companies) in connection with a wide variety of complex, high-profile corporate matters.

Jarrod’s broad corporate practice encompasses all aspects of private and public M&A and related corporate advisory work, including both domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, spin-offs, corporate restructurings, minority investments, capital markets transactions and corporate governance matters. Highly regarded as a private equity specialist with a deep knowledge of the market, Jarrod has advised on the buy-side and sell-side for numerous sponsors and their portfolio companies, including with respect to both majority and minority investments and co-investments, divestitures, take-privates and other major corporate transactions.

Mr. Scheir is a Partner at Apollo and US Head of the Hybrid Value Group, having joined in 2008.  Before joining Apollo, Mr. Scheir worked at Tailwind Capital, a middle market private equity firm. Prior to Tailwind, he was a member of the Restructuring Group and Mergers & Acquisitions Group at Rothschild Inc.  Mr. Scheir currently serves on the board of directors of Genco Shipping & Trading (NYSE: GNK) and Ridgeback Resources and is a board observer of Expedia Group Inc (NASDAQ: EXPE) and Gannett Co Inc (NYSE: GCI).   Mr. Scheir graduated magna cum laude from Cornell University with a BS in applied economics and received his MBA with honors from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School.

Pete Sorrentino is the Founder and Head of Evercore’s Private Placements Advisory business with responsibility for private equity and alternative debt capital raising for corporate and financial sponsor clients.  Pete has twenty years of corporate finance experience advising clients in capital raising and M&A transactions in sectors including TMT, energy, healthcare, industrials, financial institutions, infrastructure, transportation, real estate and consumer / retail. His predominant expertise is in the origination, structuring and execution of direct private equity, PIPEs and credit transactions for acquisition financing, recapitalization, growth capital or shareholder liquidity. Prior to joining Evercore in 2017, Pete spent seven years at Perella Weinberg Partners where he was Head of the Private Capital Advisory business. Prior to Perella Weinberg, Pete was an Executive Director in Barclays’ Global Private Capital Group and began his career at Lehman Brothers in 2000.

Since early April, Pete has executed numerous PIPE financings on behalf of both issuer and investor clients including Providence / Outfront Media, Apollo / Expedia, SunOpta / Oaktree, US Foods / KKR, Onex / Emerald Holdings and Paine Schwartz / AgroFresh.