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Scott Merlis was appointed managing director of Ducker Advisory in July, 2007 with responsibility to lead its advisory business and New York area office. He has followed the auto industry for the past 25 years as an auto analyst and maintains close relationships with directors, CEO’s and senior industry executives. Most recently he served as the automobile industry equity analyst for Thomas Weisel Partners and headed their industrial growth group from 2003 through February 2007.
From 1998 to 2002, Mr. Merlis was managing director and research analyst at Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein. During his tenure at Wasserstein, he was promoted to industrial investment banker and was involved in a wide variety of advisory, restructuring and special committee assignments. Prior to joining Wasserstein Perella, he was founder and president of MAI, an independent automotive investment bank and research firm which served blue chip clients and participated in several significant corporate and private equity transactions.
For 10 years, from 1985 to 1995, Mr. Merlis was the global auto analyst at Morgan Stanley and managed the global automotive equity research group there. During that period, he had a key role in the following landmark transactions: The largest equity financing in U.S. history, at the time, for General Motors, the privatization of Renault, the Volvo Demerger with Renault, financings critical to Chrysler, the privatization of Scania, the third Chinese IPO on the New York stock exchange, the IPO’s of key original equipment and aftermarket auto parts suppliers. As a fellow transaction team member he at various times had the unique opportunity to work alongside the bankers generally considered to be the top pioneers and leaders of the modern investment banking field: Robert Greenhill, Eric Gleacher, Vikram Pandit, Bruce Wasserstein and others. He began his career as an auto analyst at Shearson Lehman in 1981.
Throughout his career, Mr. Merlis has received top rankings in the major industry polls, including the Institutional Investor research poll and the Wall Street Journal’s “Best on the Street” poll in 1995 and 2005. During a visit to China in 1994, Mr. Merlis joined current U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney in a series of meetings with the top leaders of the government of the Peoples Republic of China in Beijing. In February 1990, the first Bush Administration appointed him to the “Auto Parts Advisory Committee (APAC)” to advise the President and Congress on auto parts trade.
Mr. Merlis earned his undergraduate degree from Brandeis University, and two master degrees from Columbia University in business Administration (MBA) and social work (MSW).
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