[3] The firm has advised on over $4.7 trillion of merger, acquisition, and restructuring transactions since its founding.

[4] Evercore advises on mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, restructurings, financings, public offerings, private placements and other strategic transactions and provides institutional investors with macro and fundamental equity research, sales and trading execution.

[5] Evercore Partners was founded by Roger Altman in 1995,[6] on the basis that clients would be best served by an investment banking firm free of the conflicts of interest of large financial institutions like Goldman Sachs and Merrill Lynch [citation needed] Altman began his career in investment banking at Lehman Brothers, serving as general partner until 1977.

After a role as assistant secretary of the U.S. Treasury until 1981, Altman returned to Lehman as co-head of global investment banking.

[citation needed] In 1987, Altman joined The Blackstone Group as its head of advisory business before returning to the U.S. Treasury to serve as deputy secretary in 1993.