Lee Eichen

Mr. Lee Eichen is a Principal at Centerboard Group LLC (Private Equity).
Prior to Centerboard, Mr. Eichen was at Banc of America Securities for nine years and was Managing Director and Head of M&A for Real Estate, Gaming, Lodging and Homebuilding.
He also led the bank's institutional private placement business.
Previously at Banc of America, he focused on M&A transactions for the general industrial coverage universe, including chemicals, transportation & logistics, aerospace & defense, capital goods and diversified industrials.
Prior to that, he worked in the Mergers & Acquisitions Group at Salomon Smith Barney, where he completed transactions in various sectors, including energy, health care, metals and mining, and technology.
Mr. Eichen's M&A experience spans a wide variety of transaction types and includes mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, restructurings, recapitalizations, fairness opinions, valuations, takeover defenses and hostile transactions.
He has executed M&A advisory and restructuring related assignments, including the acquisitions of Equity Office Properties and Hilton by The Blackstone Group, the acquisition of Archstone Smith by Tishman Speyer and Lehman Brothers, the sale of Extended Stay Hotels by Blackstone and the sale of CNL Hotels & Resorts to Morgan Stanley and Ashford.
Prior to investment banking, Mr. Eichen was a practicing attorney at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett.
Mr. Eichen received a Bachelor of Arts magna cum laude in economics from Harvard University in 1989 and a Juris Doctor cum laude - Order of the Coif from the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 1994.