#25 ERCUMENT TOKAT
The $200 Bıllıon Transactıon Man
In his fourteen-year career, Ercument Tokat has had extensive M&A execution and healthcare banking experience across developed and emerging markets, with a cumulative announced transaction size of
Ercüment Tokat, the one of partners of Centerview Partners.
$200 billion.
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rior to joining Centerview Partners, a prestigious boutique M&A advisory and private equity firm, he worked for JP Morgan, Nomura Securities, and Merrill Lynch in different capacities. Ercument Tokat went to Boğaziçi University, one of top colleges in Turkey, and received a B.A. degree in political science. There, he planned to take the entrance exam for Ministry of Foreign Affairs, to be part of its diplomatic corps, but later decided to advance his educational experience in the United States. He studied at Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and
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was later admitted to Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. His career started at JP Morgan as an analyst in Telecommunications banking and then later transferred to Nomura, a major Japanese investment bank. Based on his impressive success at both firms, he was then recruited by Merrill Lynch, to their prestigious mergers and acquisitions department. In that group, Ercument actively worked on and ran such significant deals as Bain Capital / Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Company’s leveraged buyout (“LBO”) of Hospital Corporation of