Chris Roop
Head of America’s Mergers and Acquisitions Investment Banking Group, Jefferies LLC
Chris Roop is the Co-Head of Jefferies M&A Group in the Americas responsible for the marketing and execution of advisory assignments. He partners with industry coverage client executives to provide advisory services to companies in the U.S. and abroad with a particular emphasis on large-cap and mid-cap publicly traded companies. Chris has advised on over $250 billion worth of transactions including mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, separations leveraged buyouts, unsolicited offers and special committee assignments. Immediately prior to joining Jefferies, Chris was Co-Head of the N. America M&A Group at J.P. Morgan. During his career, Chris has also held both operating and M&A corporate development roles at a publicly traded pharmaceutical company. Having advised on a number of M&A and financing transactions, Chris was recognized by The M&A Advisor as a 40-under-40 dealmaker in 2014. Chris completed his undergraduate studies and received his MBA from the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University. Chris is based in our Chicago office and lives in Winnetka, IL with his wife and twin sons.
