Bio

Frederic Floberg is a Managing Director of The Chicago Corporation. Fred has more than 40 years experience in investment banking with a concentration in mergers and acquisitions advisory work. He has represented a wide range of clients in cross-border and domestic transactions, including small to mid-capitalization enterprises and public and private companies. His clients represent various industries, including industrial products and services, distribution, technology, healthcare, specialty chemicals, consumer products, information services, and telecommunications. Prior to reestablishing The Chicago Corporation, Fred was Managing Director at Heller Financial, Inc., a GE Capital Company, where he was in charge of the sale of portfolio companies from the financial sponsor and private equity client base. Earlier, Mr. Floberg spent four years at ABN AMRO Incorporated as the head of the North American M&A department during which period of time his group completed more than 100 M&A transactions representing over $10 billion in value. Prior to ABN, he was a Managing Director, specializing in M&A, at The Chicago Dearborn Company, a privately-held broker-dealer affiliated with The First National Bank of Chicago and The Chicago Corporation. Fred began his investment banking career at Smith Barney where he was a Managing Director and a generalist investment banker working on a wide variety of public and private transactions. Prior to his investment banking career he was a partner at a large Chicago law firm. He served as an officer in the US Navy. Mr. Floberg holds an MBA in finance from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business; he holds a JD from Northwestern University School of Law where he served on the Law Review; and he obtained a BA from Dartmouth College.