Fred Turpin is Global Chair of Investment Banking at J.P. Morgan focusing across TMT and Global Infrastructure. Previously Mr. Turpin served as the Global Head of J.P. Morgan’s Media & Communications Investment Banking Practice for six years. Under his leadership, J.P. Morgan’s Global Media & Communications Investment Banking team has consistently ranked #1 in performance by Dealogic over the past five consecutive years—including #1 positions in M&A, Leveraged Finance, and Equity issuance.

Throughout his career, Mr. Turpin has served as a trusted advisor to clients across the Technology, Media & Communications landscape. His work spans the full spectrum of sector leaders and media companies including SoftBank, Warner Bros. Discovery, Altice USA, T-Mobile US, Paramount, Univision, Astound, Intelsat, and Telesat, along with numerous leading private equity firms. Mr Turpin is also recognized globally as a leading advisor in communications digital infrastructure, having advised the leading global players including: Equinix, American Tower, CyrusOne, SBA
Communications, Zayo, Cogent, Vantage, Lumen, Princeton Digital, GDC, GDS, Uniti and IHS.

Over the course of his career, Mr. Turpin has advised on many of the most complex and important transaction on Wall Street, including:

• Advisor to Warner Bros. Discovery in the highest profile corporate take-over battle in history between Paramount and Netflix. Previously advised WBD on activism defense, plan to separate Studio, Streaming, Content and the associated $36 billion balance sheet tender / consent process and $17 billion sole management bridge loan to ensure the success of the largest ever non-IG liability management exercise.• The mergers of T-Mobile USA and Sprint PCS, The Warner Media RMT merger with Discovery, T-Mobile USA RMT merger with MetroPCS
• Industry leading Digital Infrastructure transactions including American Tower’s acquisition of CoreSite Data Centers, Equinix acquisition of Switch & Data and Telecity and MetroNode, as well as the sales of Zayo, Astound and AboveNet
• Corporate clarity transactions including the separation of Warner Bros. Studio and
Streaming platform, IHS sale to MTN, TIM and Macquarie, Windstream separation and the recombination with Uniti and the first per funded, dual consent, out of court restructuring in history for Dobson / American Cellular.
• The IPOs of Altice USA, MetroPCS, Intelsat, IHS Towers, Clearwire
• Over 300 offerings of debt and equity securities, including the largest non-investment grade debt tender in history for Warner Bros., the largest financing for Zayo/Crown and the largest AI data center project finance for ABS acquisition bridge for Vantage/Oracle/OpenAI

Mr. Turpin holds a B.S. in Business Administration from Washington and Lee University, where he graduated magna cum laude and was awarded the Lewis Kerr Johnson Business Administration Department Scholarship. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Beta Gamma Sigma honor societies, and he earned his M.B.A. from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, where he was named to the Director’s List.

Prior to joining J.P. Morgan, Mr. Turpin was a Senior Managing Director and leader of the Technology, Media & Telecommunications (TMT) Investment Banking practice at Bear Stearns. Earlier in his career, he worked as a strategy consultant at the Boston Consulting Group and in the M&A group at First Boston Corporation.