Bio

Gloria Lin is a Managing Director in Evercore’s corporate strategic advisory business with a focus on shareholder activism and raid defense. Prior to joining Evercore, Ms. Lin was a Director in Citi’s Global Mergers and Acquisitions group in New York, where she worked for 11 years. Ms. Lin has extensive experience advising clients across a variety of industries on strategic advisory including public company mergers and sales, corporate divestitures, cross-border transactions, activist defense and contested shareholder situations. Notable transactions include Direct ChassisLink and Blume Global’s sale to Apollo, Interpublic Group’s acquisition of Acxiom Marketing Solutions and activist defense against Elliott, Rite Aid’s sale of stores to Walgreens, Ashland’s sale of Water Technologies to CD&R and activist defense against JANA, and Kinder Morgan’s MLP consolidation. Ms. Lin earned her B.S. from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. She frequently visits The Wharton School as a speaker at conferences and panels hosted by the school on various finance and M&A related topics and as a guest lecturer for negotiation courses.