Nigel Dawn
Senior Managing Director, Head of Evercore’s Private Capital Advisory group

With a team based in the United States, Europe, and Singapore, Mr. Dawn is responsible for originating, developing and managing secondary market transactions (LP sales, continuation vehicles and structured secondary solutions, such as LP and GP securitizations) for owners and managers of private financial assets seeking accelerated liquidity. Mr. Dawn has represented public pensions, university endowments, financial institutions, public quoted investment vehicles and other owners of private financial assets.  Mr. Dawn was recognized in 2023 by Private Equity International magazine as one of the 21 Changemakers who have helped shape the private equity business over the past 21 years.

Prior to joining Evercore, Mr. Dawn was the global co-head of the private funds group at UBS Investment Bank, where he was responsible for founding and leading the secondary market advisory business globally, and before that, for the bank’s investments in private equity funds. Earlier in his career, he worked in international commercial banking with Standard Chartered Bank and as a management consultant at Booz Allen Hamilton in New York.

Mr. Dawn graduated with honours from the University of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne with a B.A. in politics and East Asian studies, and earned his MBA from the Columbia Business School.