Bio

Rahul Chaudhary is senior managing director, head of healthcare equity capital markets (ECM) at Leerink Partners, where he has successfully led his team for more than a decade. In addition to overseeing the group, he is responsible for the origination and execution of all varieties of public and private equity offerings, including IPOs, follow-ons and private investments in public equity. Since joining the company in 2009, Rahul has led more than 500 book run offerings, including more than 150 IPOs. Formerly, he served as an integral part of Merrill Lynch’s ECM group, where he focused on origination and execution of healthcare equity and equity-linked transactions. Rahul began his career at Merrill Lynch in 2004 in the investment banking group, centered on the consumer sector, where he worked on a variety of equity, debt and M&A assignments. Rahul earned a bachelor’s degree in finance from the University of Illinois.