Derek Trott
Derek is Vice President with Closed Loop Partners’ Leadership Group, the firm’s buyout private equity strategy. He brings a professional background in corporate finance and mergers & acquisitions execution, supporting the investment team in all aspects of the deal process including deal origination, execution, due diligence, value creation, portfolio management and realizations.
Prior to joining Closed Loop Partners, Derek spent four years at J.P. Morgan across several groups. Most recently, he was an Investment Banking Associate on the Diversified Industries (Industrials) team in New York, where he was responsible for evaluating and executing mergers & acquisitions, equity capital markets and debt capital markets transactions. During this time, he announced and executed more than $8B worth of mergers & acquisitions and debt capital market transactions, including several landmark deals in the industry. Prior to joining the Diversified Industries team, he was a member of J.P. Morgan’s Middle Market Financial Sponsors Group, where he was responsible for executing leveraged buyouts, mergers & acquisitions, carve-outs and recapitalizations for sponsor-owned portfolio companies.
At Closed Loop Partners, Derek led Sage Sustainable Electronics’ bolt-on acquisitions of Relectro and Cascade Asset Management. He currently serves as a Board member of Sage Sustainable Electronics. In addition, he is a member of SERI’s ESG Technical Advisory Committee, assisting in the development of the SERI ESG Reporting Standard for Electronics.
Derek holds a BBA in Finance from The College of William & Mary, where he graduated magna cum laude.
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