Kiel Porter is an M&A Reporter for the Bloomberg deals team, based in Chicago.

Prior to covering M&A he was responsible for private-equity coverage in North America, and before that Europe from Bloomberg's London office.

Before joining Bloomberg in 2013 Kiel was a reporter at Dow Jones Newswires and Ascential.

He has an MA in Journalism from Staffordshire University and a BA in Geography from the University of Nottingham.