Davis joining M&A team at Bloomberg

Liana B. Baker, U.S. team leader for mergers and acquisitions, sent out the following announcement on Wednesday:

Michelle F. Davis will be joining the deals team on April 5 as an M&A reporter with a focus on health care, one of the busiest areas of global activity, as well as acquisition financing across all sectors.

Michelle joins us from the finance team, where she’s been a serious news breaker for the past three years covering JPMorgan. She was first to report on many management changes, strategy shifts and layoffs. She also broke news on how hundreds of employees took virus relief funds and how the bank was weighing plans to move thousands of jobs out of New York. In 2019, her report on JPMorgan disproportionately shutting branches in lower-income neighborhoods led the bank to open more branches in these areas.

This won’t be Michelle’s first time writing about the world of deals. She worked in Bloomberg’s Mexico City bureau from 2016-2018, where she broke news on M&A and IPOs related to Carlos Slim, Jose Cuervo and the state-owned oil company Pemex. She also exposed rampant insider trading and revealed the scope of cyberattacks on the nation’s biggest banks.

Michelle started at Bloomberg after graduating from the University of Virginia. Born in France, she speaks English, Spanish, French and some Arabic. She enjoys skiing black diamonds and traveling the globe to see live music, which she hopes she’ll be able to do again soon.

We’re excited to welcome Michelle to the deals team!