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Naveen Nataraj
Naveen Nataraj is co-head of Investment Banking, U.S., and a member of the firm’s Management Committee.
He focuses on advising companies in the technology, media & telecommunications sector.
During his 20-plus years at Evercore, Mr. Nataraj has advised TMT clients in transactions totaling over $600 billion in value. Recent transactions include advising Synopsys on its acquisition of Ansys; Nuance on its sale to Microsoft; athenahealth on its sale to H&F and Bain Capital; Blackstone on its acquisition of Emerson’s climate-technology business; NortonLifeLock on its merger with Avast; Verizon on its sale of Yahoo! to Apollo; Grubhub on its merger with Just Eat Takeaway.com; and Dell on its merger with the VMware tracking stock.
Mr. Nataraj has advised on several of the largest transactions in the sector: Qualcomm on its successful hostile defense against Broadcom; Broadcom on its sale to Avago Technologies; the sale of Dell to Michael Dell and Silverlake; EMC on its sale to Dell; Samsung on its acquisition of Harman; AT&T on its acquisition of BellSouth; EDS on its sale to HP; and TWCable on its spinoff from Time Warner.
Mr. Nataraj serves on the board of trustees and chairs the investment committee of the University of Rochester. He also serves on the board of the March of Dimes.