Corporate Finance
Comprehensive support throughout mergers and acquisitions and other corporate transactions.
Jon Pratt is a managing director in the Consumer M&A Advisory practice, based in the Boston office. He has over 25 years of investment banking and investment advisory experience including M&A and corporate finance.
Prior to joining Duff & Phelps, Jon was a managing director at Tully & Holland, a boutique M&A firm focused on consumer businesses. Before that, Jon was a managing director at Barclays where he was Head of Hong Kong Investment Banking and Chairman of Global Finance, Asia Pacific. Jon also worked as a managing director at Merrill Lynch, Credit Suisse and Rockefeller & Co. Jon began his career in the investment banking training program at Alex Brown & Sons in Baltimore, after which went to UBS where he held positions in corporate finance in New York, Singapore, Hong Kong and Stamford, CT.
At Duff & Phelps, Jon advises consumer products companies seeking mergers, sales, divestitures and financing, with a particular focus on clients in the food and beverage, e-commerce and branded consumer products sectors. Jon also leads the origination of corporate finance business in the New England region and supports Duff & Phelps’ broader business initiatives in Asia.
Jon has represented a broad range of U.S. and international clients on sell-side, buy-side and capital raising transactions within the food and beverage, e-commerce and packaging sectors. He has also advised and worked with companies across other industry sectors including technology, financial institutions, industrials, energy and public sector.
Jon received a B.A. from Harvard University. He holds FINRA Series 63 and 79 licenses.
Other Areas We Can Help
Consumer, Food, Restaurants and Retail M&A
Consumer, Retail, Food and Restaurant expertise for middle-market M&A transactions.
M&A Advisory
Middle-market M&A advisory differentiated by industry expertise and superior deal execution.
Private Capital Markets – Debt Advisory
Senior, subordinated and mezzanine debt and venture/private equity for a wide range of transactions.
Financial Sponsors Group
Dedicated coverage and access to M&A deal-flow for financial sponsors.
Distressed M&A and Special Situations
Financial and operational solutions for distressed and special situations.
Case Studies
Sell Side Advisor
Duff & Phelps, A Kroll Business, Advised Ya YA Foods Corporation on Its Sale to Entrepreneurial Equity Partners
has been acquired by
Sell Side Advisor
The Industrials M&A Practice of Duff & Phelps, A Kroll Business, Advised Coral Chemical Company on Its Sale to Quaker Chemical Company
has been acquired by
