Rick Heyke
Senior Advisor, Focus, LLC

Before becoming a FOCUS Senior Advisor, Rick Heyke had over 23 years' experience in domestic and international corporate finance at three major investment banking firms, and 15 years' experience as a transactional and regulatory lawyer. He has handled mergers, unilateral tender offers, private equity, private debt placements, stock offerings, high grade and high yield debt issues and project financings. Rick was head of European corporate finance for Smith Barney after previously running its Japanese operation and functioning as corporate finance department domestic and international trouble-shooter to close deals that were unlikely to close and turn around troubled relationships with clients. His clients ranged from large multinational corporations such as Ingersoll-Rand and Mitsui & Co. to small companies trying to grow.

After graduating from law school at age 50, Rick worked for 6 years at the Federal Reserve Board in Washington, where he was involved in the reduction of the banking system's non-interest bearing reserves against deposits from $33 billion to $7 billion. He subsequently handled securities, mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance, private equity and domestic and international project finance transactions (including bankruptcy support) and advised on bank and securities regulatory matters for over 9 years as a lawyer at Winston & Strawn LLP, where he remains Of Counsel. He is a member of the Illinois and DC Bars.

Rick received a B.S. in Physics magna cum laude from Yale University in 1964 and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He received his M.B.A. from Harvard Business School in 1966, concentrating on finance and international business, and his J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School in 1993.

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