Elgin Thompson

Elgin Thompson is a Managing Director and Head of Internet, Media and Entertainment Investment Banking at Citizens. He advises boards of directors, senior management teams and private equity firms on matters of strategic significance, including mergers and acquisitions, shareholder activism defense and capital markets transactions. Over a career of more than 25 years, Mr. Thompson has executed more than 150 transactions. Mr. Thompson began his career as a mergers and acquisitions attorney at Wildman, Harold, Allen & Dixon and DLA Piper. He later joined the Investment Banking Departments of SG Cowen, Merrill Lynch and Bear Stearns, where he focused on mergers and acquisitions in the technology, media and telecommunications sectors. He also served as Senior Vice President of Strategy and Corporate Development at GridNetworks, a video infrastructure company backed by Comcast, Cisco and Panorama Capital. This combination of legal, corporate and advisory experience informs his counsel t