Brook Cunningham is a Managing Director at Lazard, based in Chicago. She leads Lazard’s North American Agribusiness and Commodities investment banking practice and is responsible for coordination of the business on a global basis, and also plays a key role in the Firm’s Midwest Advisory practice.

Ms. Cunningham advises companies on matters involving corporate strategy, mergers and acquisitions, business separations, sales, strategic investments, capital structure and shareholder activism, among others.

Prior to joining Lazard in 2010, Ms. Cunningham was an Investment Banking Associate at Lehman Brothers and Barclays Capital.

Ms. Cunningham graduated from the University of Michigan with a B.A. in Economics in 2002. She earned her MBA degree from the Stephen M. Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan in 2007.