Bill Anderson

Research Analyst at Evercore ISI

Bill Anderson is a Senior Managing Director and Global Head of Evercore’s Strategic, Defense & Shareholder Advisory Practice, specializing in activism and raid defense across all industries. He has advised more than 500 companies—including major public firms involved in complex M&A and contested shareholder situations such as Anadarko, Occidental Petroleum, Chevron, Hess, Nuance, Microsoft, Synopsys, Ansys, US Steel, and Amazon—providing strategic counsel in many of the largest proxy fights and raid defenses of the past two decades. Beginning his career as a CPA at Coopers & Lybrand, Anderson went on to practice M&A law at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, led the defense team as an M&A partner at Goldman Sachs for over 15 years, and joined Evercore as Senior Managing Director in 2015. He holds a J.D. (magna cum laude, Order of the Coif) and a B.S.B.A. in accounting and history (magna cum laude) from Georgetown University, is a Certified Public Accountant, and has served as a Captain in the U.S. Army Reserves, with frequent industry publications and speaking engagements.