Ed King is a managing director and head of Lazard Middle Market’s Education and Training Advisory Group. He has more than 18 years experience developing and executing M&A transactions, public equity offerings and private placements.

Prior to joining Lazard Middle Market, Mr. King was a managing director, M&A in the education and business services sector at BMO Capital Markets where he was responsible for building its M&A franchise in education and overseeing the transaction execution in the sector. Prior to that, Mr. King was at William Blair & Company in its software and information services group and he was a managing director at ABN AMRO where he built and managed the firm’s business and information services practice.

Mr. King holds a Master of Management degree from J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University and earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Middlebury College.