Sir Laurie Magnus is Deputy Chairman (Europe) of Evercore Partners, the US listed investment banking business.  He has over 30 years of investment banking experience, initially with Samuel Montagu & Co. Limited (subsequently HSBC Investment Bank), where he was deputy head of its UK corporate finance department. He joined Phoenix Securities Limited, the corporate finance advisory business focussed upon the financial institutions sector, in 1995.  Following its acquisition by Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette Inc. (DLJ), the US investment bank, he became a Managing Director of the merged business.  After DLJ was acquired by Credit Suisse First Boston (CSFB) in 2000, he was briefly a Managing Director of CSFB before joining Lexicon Partners, the privately owned corporate finance advisory business, as Deputy Chairman in 2001. He subsequently became Chairman of Lexicon until its merger with Evercore in 2011.

Sir Laurie Magnus is non-executive chairman of The JP Morgan Income & Capital Trust. He is a non-executive director of The Cayenne Trust plc, Pantheon International Participations plc and Fidelity Japanese Values plc.  In the not-for-profit sector, he is Deputy Chairman of The National Trust and an elected member of its Council, Deputy Chairman of the Windsor Leadership Trust and a Trustee of The Landmark Trust and b-eat (The Eating Disorders Association).