Cathleen Hughes

Cathleen Hughes

Director, Mergers & Acquisitions

Cathleen Hughes is a Director in the Mergers & Acquisitions practice of Kroll, LLC, based in Chicago. She has over 20 years of experience working with middle market companies and their advisors, providing M&A advisory services, capital raising, and valuation services.

Cathleen is primarily responsible for building relationships between Kroll and financial sponsors, privately-owned companies and public companies to generate and execute M&A transactions, including leveraged buyouts, divestitures, recapitalizations and strategic alternatives, transaction advisory services, transaction opinions and valuation services.

Prior to joining Kroll, Cathleen worked at Bank of Montreal, providing debt, capital markets and derivative solutions to privately-owned and sponsor-owned middle market companies.

Cathleen received a Bachelor of Arts in English and Economics from Marquette University. She is a FINRA registered representative and holds the FINRA Series 7, 63 and 79 licenses. She is a member of the Association for Corporate Growth and the Women’s Association of Venture and Equity, and she serves on the Board of Directors at Fenwick High School.



Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) Advisory

Kroll’s investment banking practice has extensive experience in M&A deal strategy and structuring, capital raising, transaction advisory services and financial sponsor coverage.

Fairness Opinions

#1 ranked provider of fairness opinions for boards of directors and special committees.

Solvency Opinions

Duff & Phelps Opinions practice is a globally recognized leader in solvency opinions. Since 2005, we have rendered more than 2,585 fairness and solvency opinions for transactions with an aggregate deal value of over $8 trillion.


Distressed M&A and Special Situations

Kroll professionals have advised hundreds of companies, investors and other stakeholders at all stages of distressed transactions and special situations.

Secondary Market Advisory Services

As the largest independent valuation advisory firm, Kroll brings extensive industry experience to the secondary market for alternative investments to address the transfer needs of general partners and limited partners.

ESOP and ERISA Advisory

Kroll's ESOP/ERISA practice is a leading corporate finance and valuation advisor to companies and ERISA fiduciaries.


Financial Sponsors Group

Dedicated coverage and access to M&A deal-flow for financial sponsors.

Private Capital Markets – Debt Advisory

Kroll has extensive experience raising capital for middle-market companies to support a wide range of transactions.