Carolyn Crooks has joined Evercore as a senior managing director in the Financial Sponsors Group and will be based in New York.

Ms. Crooks comes to Evercore after 21 years at Barclays, where she was a managing director in the financial sponsors group. She was responsible for the firm’s relationship with numerous private equity firms after spending over a decade in Barclays’ equity capital markets focusing on structuring and marketing equity securities for clients in the retail, consumer and industrials sectors. Ms. Crooks started her career as an industry coverage analyst in the global real estate group at Lehman Brothers.

Dan Mendelow, co-head of Evercore U.S. Advisory, said, “Deepening our relationships with financial sponsors is one of our key priorities. We are excited to add a banker of Carolyn’s stature and experience to our team. She has significant, well-established relationships and is known to be a trusted advisor to many important financial sponsors.”

Ms. Crooks said, “Evercore has one of the most experienced and well-respected advisory and equity franchises in the industry. I am energized by the opportunity to help build upon the firm’s success delivering these best-in-class capabilities to our Financial Sponsors clients.”

Ms. Crooks earned a B.S. in commerce from the McIntire School of Commerce at the University of Virginia. She is a Chartered Financial Analyst.