Bio

John Startin is a senior managing director in Evercore’s corporate advisory business. Mr. Startin is focused on the firm’s global metals, materials and mining franchise. Mr. Startin was most recently a managing director, head of metals and mining in the Americas, and a member of the M&A group at Goldman Sachs. During his career, Mr. Startin has covered base, bulk and precious miners and industrial metals processors. He advised Novelis on its acquisition of Aleris; Noble on its acquisition of Jamalco; Murray Energy on its acquisition of selected assets from CONSOL Energy; and Colombia Natural Resources on its sale to Murray Energy. He also acted as advisor to Arconic on its defense against Elliott, and Commercial Metals on its defense against Carl Icahn. He advised Foresight Energy on its out-of-court restructuring. In addition to these selected advisory assignments, Mr. Startin has led the financing of over $15 billion of coal debt securities and loans, including the refinancing of Peabody Energy on its emergence from Chapter 11, and numerous IPOs and secondary offerings of equity, including Constellium’s dual-listed IPO and Coronado’s ASX IPO. Mr. Startin read philosophy, politics and economics at The Queen’s College, Oxford, and was awarded a B.A. and an M.A. by the University of Oxford. He earned his MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.