Corporate advisory giant Brunswick Group announced today that it has expanded its footprint into the Midwest with the opening of a Chicago office.

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Brunswick’s Windy City digs comprises the global M&A advisor’s fifth office in the U.S. and its 24th worldwide. The new Chicago outpost, which currently staffs ten, will serve as the agency's Midwestern hub, and will provide regional and global clients the agency’s full suite of services, including counsel on mergers and acquisitions, IPOs, employee engagement, crisis, litigation and executive transitions, as well as market research, digital and design services.

The Chicago office will also serve as a hub for the agency's global employee engagement practice.

New York partner and former JP Morgan analyst Jayne Rosefield will now head the Chicago outfit. She’ll be joined by partner Christopher Hannegan, who joined the M&A PR advisor in October from Edelman, where he served as executive VP and led that agency’s Employee Engagement offering in the U.S.

Rosefield told O’Dwyer’s the agency has already had the privilege of working with several leading Chicago-headquartered companies, such as Kraft Heinz, Mondelez, Groupon and Walgreens Boots Alliance, and “are hugely excited to better connect our global network of experts from our Midwestern office."

"Chicago is home to some of the world's most iconic and well-respected companies, and a truly vibrant start-up community of technological innovators,” Rosefield said. “As a business advisory firm, we felt we could better support this dynamic corporate community by having an on-the-ground presence in Chicago.”