Jason M. Sobol

Mr. Jason M.
Sobol is Vice President at Evercore Capital Partners.
Prior to joining Evercore, he was Vice President of Acquisitions for the Davis Companies, the holding company for Marvin Davis-controlled entities, focusing on private equity and leveraged buyout opportunities primarily in media and entertainment.
Mr. Sobol was also a Principal of the Davis family’s venture fund, Stone Canyon Venture Partners, focusing on minority investments in early-staged media, communications and consumer businesses.
Prior to Davis Companies, Mr. Sobol was Senior Director of Business Development for LAUNCH Media, which was acquired by Yahoo!, and prior to that, a financial analyst in the Mergers & Acquisitions group of Goldman Sachs & Co. In recent transactions at Evercore, Mr. Sobol was involved in the sale of J.D.
Power and Associates to The McGraw-Hill Companies, the sale of Dice.com to a private equity consortium, the acquisitions of BrownCo and Harrisdirect by E*TRADE FINANCIAL, the sale of Medical World Communications to Ascend Media and the sale of PanAmSat Corporation to a private equity consortium.
Other notable transactions include Pearson’s acquisition of Simon & Schuster, the merger of Disney’s Go.com and Infoseek, the divestiture of Cargill’s global hybrid seed business, the IPO of Portal Software and the recapitalization of C&H Sugar by Alexander & Baldwin.
Mr. Sobol received a BA in Economics, with honors, from Harvard University.