Nick Morriss is a co-founder of EMA, and serves as a Managing Partner. Nick has a career that spans nearly thirty years in international private equity, corporate finance, privatization and project financing. Over his career, Nick has spent approximately half his time in London and the other half in New York/Washington, with extended periods in Central and Eastern Europe, Latin America, Asia and Africa.

From 1997 to 2006, Nick Morriss was a partner in Projects International and, latterly with John Stephens, in Cape Point Capital, where he undertook buyouts and acquisitions work for corporate clients and advisory assignments for pension funds and private equity managers, with a particular emphasis on emerging markets.

From 1986 to 1997, Nick was a senior partner in the international accounting and consulting firm of PriceWaterhouseCoopers (initially, Coopers & Lybrand). Nick established the public mergers & acquisitions advisory practice for Coopers & Lybrand, U.K. and later set up the international Privatization Group. In 1992, he was asked by Coopers & Lybrand, U.S., to establish an international M&A and Privatization Group based out of the United States. By the time he left in 1997, this group numbered in excess of 200 professionals in the U.S. and had undertaken, in collaboration with C&L’s local offices, significant and high-profile transactions covering both privatizations and M&A assignments in countries as diverse as Sri Lanka, India, Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, Peru, Brazil, Romania, Russia and Bulgaria. For nearly three years, Nick led teams that undertook due diligence assignments for a number of buy-out firms, including Carlyle Group.

From 1979 to 1986, Nick was Assistant Director in the Corporate Finance Division of Barclays de Zoete Wedd (London), a major U.K. investment bank. During this time, he worked extensively on public offerings, business strategy, international mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, and capital placements.