Cary Allan Kochman (born April 1965) is an American banker and the Sole Head of the Global Mergers and Acquisitions Group at Citigroup,[1] as well as the Chairman of the Chicago Citi office.
[5][6] Kochman is also a featured lecturer, speaker and panelist at numerous graduate programs, academic conferences, corporate meetings, seminars, and events.
[7][8][9][10][11][12][13] Cary Kochman graduated from the Honors College at the University of Illinois at Chicago in 1986 with a BS in accounting.
[15] While at the University of Chicago, he attended the London Business School and was also awarded a Nikko Fellowship for study in Tokyo, Japan.
He joined Citigroup in 2011[18][19] upon resigning his position at UBS[20][21][22] as the Joint Global Head of Mergers & Acquisitions.
[24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32] During his tenure at UBS, he also served as Co-Head of the Investment Banking Department's (IBD's) Chicago office and Midwest Region.
He also worked with GGP and American National Bank on their respective sale transactions to Brookfield Property Partners.
[45][46] Kochman served as a financial advisor to Catalent during their February 2024 sale to Novo Holdings for $16.5 billion.
[47][48] Over the course of his career he has advised on numerous high-profile transactions including: ISCAR's sale to Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway, URS merger with AECOM, Bucyrus International on its sale to Caterpillar,[20] the sale of Tim Horton's to Burger King[49] & 3G, Robbins & Myers’ sale to National Oilwell Varco, the merger of Eaton & Cooper Industries, Verint's merger with Comverse Technology, Whitman's realignment with PepsiCo and subsequent acquisition of Pepsi Americas, Zimmer Holdings’ cross-border hostile takeover of Centerpulse AG (named "deal of the year")[50] and the Margaret Cargill Foundation with regard to their Cargill stake monetization via the tax efficient split-off of Mosaic.