Bio

Juan Pedro Pérez Cózar is a Senior Managing Director of Evercore with over 22 years of corporate finance and capital markets experience. Mr Pérez Cózar leads Evercore’s Spanish and Portuguese Advisory businesses. Mr. Pérez Cózar joined Evercore from Rothschild & Co, where he was a Managing Director in its advisory business focused on Spanish client coverage. Prior to joining Rothschild & Co in 2008, Mr. Pérez Cózar spent seven years at Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein, where he was responsible for Iberian client coverage. He has advised on approximately 100 transactions, predominantly M&A, but also more than 40 equity capital market deals (mainly IPOs and secondary disposals) and debt advisory transactions. Among recent transactions, Mr. Pérez Cózar advised on the partial disposal of Cepsa to Carlyle, the acquisition of Areas by PAI, the acquisition of ITP by Rolls Royce and more than 20 private equity deals in the Iberian market. He also advised on the c. €44bn acquisition of Endesa by Enel – the largest ever Spanish cross border deal. Mr. Pérez Cózar received a degree in Business Administration from CUNEF University in Madrid, and is a fluent English, French, German and Spanish speaker.