Bio

Rich Jackim is an experienced investment banker and former Wall Street attorney. During his investment banking career Mr. Jackim has been involved in over 60 mergers or acquisitions of middle market companies with a combined market value of over $1 billion. Rich is a respected expert on the topic of exit planning and middle market investment banking. He is the author of the critically acclaimed book,The $10 Trillion Opportunity - Designing Successful Exit Strategies for Middle Market Business Owners - A Guide for Professional Advisors. Rich has been quoted in or written articles for Business Week, The Chicago Tribune, The Counselor, The Business Ledger, Injection Molding Magazine, Bulk Transport, The Indianapolis Business Journal, Transport Topics and other regional and national publications. After law school, Rich practiced corporate law on Wall Street with the New York law firm of White & Case. He later attended The Kellogg Graduate School of Management where he earned his MBA in corporate finance and marketing. After graduating from Kellogg, Rich worked as an investment banker for Prudential Capital, one of the investment units of The Prudential Insurance Company. Rich was then recruited to become President of a nationally recognized middle market mergers & acquisitions firm with 14 offices around the country. After almost seven years growing that company, Rich left to co-found an M&A firm that was quickly recognized by Crain's Chicago Business as one of the Top Investment Banking firms in Chicago. Rich joined MidCap to work with business owners in the Midwest and to spearhead MidCap's national growth plans. Rich splits his time between working with clients and running MidCap's Affiliate Partner Program. Rich, his wife, and two children, live in Mettawa, IL, a suburb about 30 miles north of Chicago.