JPMorgan’s Haidee Lee Eyes`Sweet Spot’ in Middle Market for M&A

Hi, it’s Kamaron Leach and Liana Baker in New York, where spring has begun to break. Today we sit down with the head of JPMorgan’s strategic investor group for M&A, who joined the bank from Goldman Sachs about two years ago. Elsewhere, Apollo readies its bid for Arconic and a big Canadian telecom deal gets approved.

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A dozen-plus floors up in the JPMorgan Madison Avenue office dedicated to wealth management, we chatted with Haidee Lee, head of mergers and acquisitions for the bank’s strategic investor group. She ran us through the cohort’s core responsibilities since its inception about two years ago, as well as financing and the middle-market “sweet spot” and the women in the banking industry who she looks to for inspiration.—Kamaron Leach and Liana Baker