Will Priestley

Will Priestley is an Associate at JMI Equity. Will was previously an Investment Banking Analyst at Bank of America Merrill Lynch from July 2019 to June 2021.

During their time at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Will was ranked top bucket among analyst class and had experience with transactions totaling over $50 billion. Will was responsible for performing accretion-dilution, DCF, precedent transaction and LBO analyses for both buy-side and sell-side technology M&A transactions in the Software, Semiconductor and Internet verticals.

Some of the notable transactions that Will worked on include being the exclusive financial advisor to Salesforce.com on the $27.8 billion acquisition of Slack, lead financial advisor to Coherent on the $6.3 billion sale to II-VI, and exclusive financial advisor to Facebook on the $5.7 billion investment in Jio Platforms.

Will Priestley received a Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) from the University of Michigan - Stephen M. Ross School of Business with a concentration in finance and accounting.