Bio

Tom Massey leads Evercore’s Chemicals corporate advisory business and has over 26 years of experience. Major advisory assignments have included: Audax on its sale of Gabriel Performance Products, Ardian on its sale of Kersia Group, Covestro on its €1.6bn acquisition of DSM Resins & Functional Materials, Baker Hughes on its sale of its Specialty Polymers business, Paine Schwartz Partners on its preferred stock investment in AgroFresh, Kersia on its acquisition of Holchem from Ecolab, Axalta on its strategic review process, KWS on its acquisition of Pop Vriend, Hexion’s first lien creditors on its chapter 11 plan of reorganization, Flotek on its $175m sale of Florida Chemical to ADM, UPL on its $4.2bn acquisition of Arysta LifeScience, Elementis on its $500m acquisition of Mondo Minerals, Carlyle on its €10.1bn acquisition of AkzoNobel’s Specialty Chemicals business, Norske Skog on its $500m sale to Oceanwood, PQ on its IPO, The Board of Sesa Goa on its $6.5bn corporate re-organization, Severstal on the $2.7bn split-off of NordGold, PhosAgro on its $536m IPO and its $467m follow-on equity offering, Norsk Hydro on its $5.3bn acquisition of Vale’s Aluminium Business, Yara on the sale of its Fosfertil stake to Vale, Solvay on the $7.7bn divestment of its Pharmaceutical business, Yara on its $1.6bn acquisition of Saskferco Products, Kemira on its TiO2 JV with Rockwood, Uralkali on its $1.0bn IPO, Basell on its $19.6bn acquisition of Lyondell, SABIC on its $11.6bn acquisition of GE Plastics from General Electric, Citadel capital on its $1.8bn sale of Egyptian Fertilizer Company, Yara International on its $1.2bn acquisition of Kemira GrowHow, Industri Kapital on its sale of Dyno Nobel to Macquarie for $1.7bn, Sumitomo on its $8.9bn investment in Petro Rabigh, Lyondell Chemical Company on its $2.3bn acquisition of Millennium Chemicals Inc., Lyondell Chemical Company on its $2.5bn divestiture of its worldwide Polyols Business to Bayer and Atlantic Richfield Company on its $6.5bn sale of its majority-owned and publicly listed subsidiary ARCO Chemical Company to Lyondell Petrochemical Company, amongst others. During the course of his career Mr. Massey has also assisted his clients in raising in excess of $85bn of debt and equity capital. Prior to joining Evercore, Tom had headed Citigroup’s European Mergers & Acquisitions team and previously had headed both of Citi’s Chemicals and Metals & Mining investment banking teams in EMEA. He has been based in London since 2004 and was previously based in New York as a member of the Salomon Brothers / Salomon Smith Barney Energy, Power & Chemicals team. Mr. Massey holds a B.A. from The College of the Holy Cross and an M.B.A. from Georgetown University.