Rich Jackim

Bio

Mr Jackim is a Managing Director in MidCap Advisors' Chicago office. Mr Jackim is an experienced investment banker and former Wall Street attorney. During his investment banking career Mr Jackim has been involved in over 60 mergers or acquisitions of middle market companies with a combined market value of over $1 billion. Mr Jackim is a respected expert on the topic of exit planning and middle market investment banking. He is the author of the critically acclaimed book,The $10 Trillion Opportunity - Designing Successful Exit Strategies for Middle Market Business Owners - A Guide for Professional Advisors. Mr Jackim has been quoted in or written articles for Business Week, The Chicago Tribune, The Counselor, The Business Ledger, Injection Molding Magazine, Bulk Transport, The Indianapolis Business Journal, Transport Topics and other regional and national publications. After graduating from Kellogg, Mr Jackim worked as an investment banker for Prudential Capital, one of the investment units of The Prudential Insurance Company. Mr Jackim was then recruited to become President of a nationally recognized middle market mergers & acquisitions firm with 14 offices around the country. After almost seven years growing that company, Mr Jackim left to co-found an M&A firm that was quickly recognized by Crain's Chicago Business as one of the Top Investment Banking firms in Chicago. Mr Jackim joined MidCap to work with business owners in the Midwest and to spearhead MidCap's national growth plans. Mr Jackim splits his time between working with clients and running MidCap's Affiliate Partner Program. After law school, Mr Jackim practiced corporate law on Wall Street with the New York law firm of White & Case. He later attended The Kellogg Graduate School of Management where he earned his MBA in corporate finance and marketing.