ANDREW T. WHITTAKER

MANAGING DIRECTOR
M&A CAPITAL MARKETS ADVISORY
NEW YORK / USA/ EUROPE

Andrew T. Whittaker joined KingsRock in 2024 as a Managing Director working with large cap corporations in US/Europe focusing on M&A and capital markets advisory.

Andrew’s work includes both corporate analysis and providing macro trading insights with expertise in global markets, derivatives, quantitative merger and acquisition analysis, and capital markets advisory.

Prior to joining KingsRock, Andrew served as a senior capital markets advisor working independently for corporate clients. Until April 2021, Andrew was a Partner/Managing Director in Financial Advisory at Lazard and headed the Global M&A Analytics team. Andrew joined Lazard in 2016 with over 25 years of finance experience as both a senior research analyst and hedge fund manager.

Prior to joining Lazard, Andrew was Managing Member and Chief Investment Officer of M81 Capital, a merger arbitrage and event driven hedge fund located in New York. Prior to M81 Capital, Andrew managed a proprietary option trading group at Timber Hill in Greenwich, CT and was a senior analyst at Goldman Sachs Asset Management (GSAM) specializing in derivatives, merger arbitrage, event arbitrage, and relative value credit investing.

Andrew was Global Head of Arbitrage Research at Lehman Brothers in New York from 1999 through 2006. Managing a global team of analysts specializing in event driven research for Lehman, Andrew was ranked #1 in Equity Derivatives Research in the 2005 Alpha Hedge Fund poll and #2 by Institutional Investor.

Andrew earned a B.A. from University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and a MBA from Washington University in St. Louis.