Courtney Haydon

Courtney Haydon is a Managing Director in Financial Sponsors at Lazard.

Prior to joining Lazard, Courtney was a Senior Managing Director at Guggenheim Partners in Financial Sponsors Investment Banking focused on large-cap and middle-market private equity firms across a variety of transactions, including sellside and buyside M&A, IPOs, strategic acquisitions, securitizations, restructurings and secondaries.

Previously, Courtney had been at Bank of America (formerly Merrill Lynch) in Financial Sponsors Investment Banking and earlier in her career worked as an engineer at AECOM Technologies and Halcrow Group.

Courtney holds an MBA in Finance and Strategic Management from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, a Master of Science in Coastal Engineering from the University of Delaware, and a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering from North Carolina State University, where she graduated magna cum laude.