Investment banker Michael Gottschalk has been named partner and managing director at PJ Solomon.
In his new role, he will cover the consumer products sector, including food and beverage, personal and household care and consumer health sectors, among other areas.
Gottschalk has been an investment banker for over 25 years, and was most recently managing director at Rothschild. Before his 13 years there, Gottschalk was a managing director at Lazard LLC, where he focused on mergers and acquisitions in the consumer products and retail sectors. He held a similar role before Lazard at Wasserstein Perella & Co., and previously was an attorney at Cravath, Swaine & Moore and a certified public accountant at Deloitte.
Marc Cooper, PJ Solomon’s chief executive officer, said, “Michael has a long and successful track record of advising clients in the consumer sector and we are very pleased that he has chosen to continue his career at PJ Solomon.”
Gottschalk’s advisement of global strategic and financial clients includes Beiersdorf, Dean Foods, Fonterra, Lala, McCormick, Nestle and Newell Brands.
PJ Solomon, formerly Peter J. Solomon Co., is an independently operated affiliate of Natixis, which is part of Groupe BPCE, a top 10 European and a top 20 global bank. The firm’s activities include advisement work on mergers and acquisitions, restructurings, recapitalizations, capital markets solutions and activism defense – all across a range of industries that include retail, consumer, grocery, media and entertainment and energy, to name a few.