Leslie G. Fenton

Managing Director, Chicago

Leslie G. Fenton joined KPMG Corporate Finance in 2008. Leslie serves as a Managing Director and heads the Insurance team. Leslie will be responsible for advising both domestic and international clients on investment banking transactions in the insurance and other related industries.

Since 1982, Leslie has been an investment banker, specializing in insurance corporate finance. She has extensive transactions experience, from new capital issuance in both public and private markets, to strategic and private equity-sponsored mergers and acquisitions, to structured solutions for insurance companies and insurance and healthcare-related services companies. Leslie has advised on transactions for U.S. and foreign carriers, private equity investors, and corporations with unique insurance exposures. She has significant experience in advising on 'lift out’ transactions and management buy-outs, advising companies and shareholder constituencies on specialty transactions for maximizing shareholder value, and working with regulators and agencies to effect transactions for the benefit of policyholders.

Prior to joining KPMG Corporate Finance, Leslie was a managing director with Navigant Consulting, Inc. Before joining Navigant Capital Advisors, she was a partner at Cochran, Caronia & Co. Prior to that, Leslie was a managing director with Security Pacific Merchant Bank and was a founding member of the insurance investment banking practice in the corporate finance department of the investment bank Kidder, Peabody & Co. Inc. Leslie started her business career in 1979 at The Boston Consulting Group as editor and associate in BCG’s new Chicago office.

Leslie holds an M.B.A. in Finance from the University of Chicago in Chicago, Illinois and a B.A. and M.A. in History from Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana.