Chicago-based Lincoln International provides financial services to a wide variety of industries, including healthcare, media and technology, energy and infrastructure, and more. The firm’s services include mergers and acquisitions advisory, private funds and capital markets advisory, and valuation and fairness opinions.

Lincoln International was founded in 1996 by Rob Barr, Jim Lawson, Ed Hanlon, and Eric Malchow. The company was originally known as Lincoln Partners and was intended to be a boutique investment banking firm, However, it experienced rapid growth in its early years, and after a merger with Peters Associates, the name was changed to Lincoln International. Today. Lincoln International employs more than 850 people across 15 countries.