Chris Weil

Chris Weil serves as Managing Director in the Chicago office at Portage Point Partners, where he focuses on investment banking advisory services across the industrials sector, notably in the packaging, paper, specialty materials and resources vertical. He has nearly 20 years of investment banking experience, working with a broad range of public, private and financial investor-owned companies.

Chris has significant expertise advising companies on strategic acquisitions, sale transactions, leveraged buyouts and recapitalizations. He has also guided businesses through numerous capital markets transactions, including bank loans and credit facilities, high-yield and investment grade bonds and equity financings. Over the course of his career, Chris has advised on over $25 billion in M&A transactions and $60 billion in capital markets transactions.

Prior to Portage Point, Chris was a Managing Director on the Industrials and Services Team at Truist, where he provided M&A, capital markets and financial advisory services primarily for packaging, paper and forest products businesses. Before joining Truist, Chris was a Managing Director at Barclays where he focused on Industrials coverage. Chris began his investment banking career with the Industrials Group at Deutsche Bank.

Chris earned a Master of Business Administration with Distinction from the University of Michigan and a Bachelor of Science in Systems Engineering from the University of Virginia.

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