Bio

Charles Samkoff is a Managing Director and Head of the Mergers and Acquisitions Group at Cypress Associates. Mr. Samkoff has been in the investment banking industry for over 15 years. From 1998 until joining Cypress in 2004, he was a Managing Director in CIBC World Markets’ Mergers and Acquisitions Group overseeing the Defense/Aerospace, Communications, Consumer Growth and Industrial M&A Groups. Mr. Samkoff joined CIBC World Markets as a senior member of a core team of M&A bankers mandated to build CIBC World Markets’ M&A franchise. During his leadership, CIBC World Markets’ M&A Group ranked as one of the fastest growing M&A practices on Wall Street according Thomson Financial. Mr. Samkoff has advised corporate and institutional clients on numerous mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures, hostile defenses and restructurings in a variety of sectors, including working with a number of the largest financial sponsors, with an aggregate value in excess of $65.0 billion. Mr. Samkoff received his M.B.A. with Honors from Fordham University and his B.A. in Economics from the University of Denver.