Lincoln International Promotes Six to Managing Director

Lincoln International, a global investment banking advisory firm, is pleased to announce the promotion of six advisory professionals to the role of Managing Director across its brands.

The newly promoted professionals span Lincoln’s North America, Europe and Asia offices, reflecting the international reach and collaborative culture of Lincoln’s advisory platform. Their leadership roles will guide the firm’s Mergers & Acquisitions, Valuations & Opinions and Financial Sponsor Coverage Groups, demonstrating the firm’s broad commitment to delivering best-in-class advisory services across the global private markets.

“Our newest Managing Directors embody Lincoln’s focus on attracting, retaining, engaging and empowering top talent for long-term success,” stated Rob Brown, Chief Executive Officer of Lincoln International. “The promotion of these six professionals, in addition to 13 lateral hires and the acquisition of MarshBerry in 2025, strengthens our global Managing Director team to over 150. We are excited about the impact that all of these people will have as we pursue our goal of being the best investment banking advisor in the private capital markets.”

Outlined below are further details about the newest Managing Directors, in alphabetical order:

Promoted Professionals across Lincoln’s Brands

Peter Gnatowski | New York
Peter advises companies, their creditors and equity-holder constituencies across complex capital structure transactions within Lincoln’s Capital Advisory and Restructuring Group. With over 18 years of experience, Peter’s expertise includes raising debt and equity capital, recapitalizations, restructuring negotiations and mergers and acquisitions. His wide range of expertise enables him to successfully guide his clients in optimizing their capital structure needs through creative and tailored solutions.

James Graham | Orange County, CA
James advises insurance distribution and wealth management firms on M&A, capital raising, valuation and succession planning, with a focus on helping owners optimize outcomes in complex transactions. He works closely with founders, management teams and capital partners to develop tailored strategies that support growth, liquidity and long-term value creation. James also serves as a facilitator within MarshBerry’s executive peer exchange network, Connect, and publishes insights relevant to the insurance distribution marketplace.

Ujwal Goenka | Mumbai
Ujwal provides mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and growth equity advisory services in the healthcare sector for clients globally. He works closely with variety of clients that include private equity groups and high-growth companies seeking growth capital. He manages communication with clients, investors and potential buyers. Ujwal plays an active role in origination of new business and has led transaction execution for several companies in the healthcare sector, which include hospitals, medical devices, pharma and healthcare IT.

Sedat Irdelp | Frankfurt
Sedat is responsible for building and deepening relationships with leading financial sponsors and private equity firms investing across Germany and the DACH region. He advises clients on strategic investment opportunities and supports the sale and refinancing of portfolio companies. Over the course of his career, Sedat has led and advised on numerous sell-side M&A and debt advisory transactions

Scott Pollard | Atlanta
Scott is a Director in Lincoln’s Valuations & Opinions Group and leads the firm’s Atlanta office. He advises a wide range of alternative asset managers on valuing their illiquid positions, focusing on loans, subordinated and mezzanine debt, convertible debt and common and preferred equity. Scott has extensive experience in executing valuations of businesses and their underlying securities for tax, financial reporting and strategic planning purposes as well as performing decision support analyses for transactions under consideration. He provides alternative investment valuations for private equity funds, business development companies and venture capital funds.

Casey Pont | Cleveland, OH
Casey is a leader in the Financial Services Group and co-leads MarshBerry’s Sell-Side Practice, delivering M&A advisory services to independently owned businesses, private equity firms and portfolio companies across the insurance, wealth management and accounting & tax industries. Her experience spans sell-side and buy-side representation, capital raises, platform firm formations, perpetuation planning and compensation consulting. In addition to her M&A leadership, Casey leads two Strategic Issues Groups within MarshBerry’s executive peer exchange network, Connect.