Evercore appointed Paul Stefanick to the firm’s Investment Banking business as a senior managing director and a senior leader of the company.

Stefanick will focus his efforts on advising large, multinational companies across a variety of industries and will join a small group of senior advisory bankers to develop new business and to execute client advisory engagements.

Stefanick joins from Deutsche Bank where he was most recently a managing director and chairman of Global Corporate and Investment Banking.

Stefanick has advised on many notable M&A and capital markets transactions for clients such as Danaher, United Technologies, Honeywell, John Deere, IBM, GE, Stanley Black & Decker, Raytheon, Merck, General Motors, Ford and others.

His previous roles at Deutsche Bank include head of Americas Corporate and Investment Banking, head of Global Investment Banking Coverage and Advisory, and head of Global Industrials. Prior to joining Deutsche Bank in 2009, Stefanick was chairman of Global Mergers & Acquisitions at Merrill Lynch, where he spent the first 20 years of his investment banking career.

John Weinberg, Evercore’s executive chairman and chairman of the board, said, “We are extremely pleased that Paul Stefanick will be joining Evercore. His experience as a trusted strategic and financial advisor to senior executives of many of the world’s leading companies combined with his proven leadership skills make him an ideal fit for the future of Evercore.”