Bio

Nigel Dawn is a Senior Managing Director and Head of Evercore’s Private Capital Advisory Group. With a team based in the United States and Europe, Mr. Dawn is responsible for originating, developing and managing secondary market transactions for owners and managers of private financial assets seeking liquidity in the secondary market. Mr. Dawn has represented public pensions, university endowments, financial institutions, public quoted investment vehicles and other owners of private financial assets. Mr. Dawn was previously the Global Co-head of the Private Funds Group at UBS Investment Bank. At UBS Investment Bank, Mr. Dawn was responsible for founding and leading the Secondary Market Advisory business globally, and prior to this, was responsible for UBS Investment Bank’s investments in private equity funds. Mr. Dawn’s career began in international commercial banking with Standard Chartered Bank and following his MBA was a management consultant at Booz*Allen and Hamilton in New York. Mr. Dawn graduated with a BA (Hons.) in Politics and East Asian Studies from the University of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, and earned his MBA degree at the Columbia Business School.