Gary W. Parr, Vice Chairman, Lazard

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Gary W. Parr is a Vice Chairman of Lazard and a member of its Board of Directors. For over 25 years, he has focused on providing strategic advice to financial institutions worldwide. Mr. Parr has advised on transactions such as: the sale of Lehman’s North American investment banking business to Barclays, the sale of Bear Stearns to JPMorgan, the Board of Fannie Mae in the US-led restructuring, Mitsubishi UFJ’s investment in Morgan Stanley, Kuwait’s investment in Citigroup, China Investment Corp.’s investment in Morgan Stanley, the merger of Bank of New York and Mellon, JP Morgan’s acquisition of Bank One, New York Stock Exchange’s becoming public, Manulife’s acquisition of John Hancock, AIG’s acquisition of American General, the sale of Donaldson Lufkin & Jenrette to Credit Suisse First Boston, the merger of Allied Zurich PLC with Zurich Allied AG, AIG’s purchase of SunAmerica, Dean Witter Discover’s merger with Morgan Stanley, and Berkshire Hathaway’s acquisition of GEICO.

Previously, he was with Morgan Stanley serving in numerous capacities.

• Vice-Chairman: Institutional Securities and Investment Banking
• Chairman and Head of the Global Financial Institutions Group: Group that served financial service clients globally with all merger, advisory and capital markets solutions
• Co-Head of the Global Mergers and Acquisitions Department: Group was number two M&A advisory firm in world during late 1990’s while co-head with announced transactions of $918 billion in 1999 alone
• Chairman: Princes Gate Fund ($1.5 billion private equity fund)



Prior to Morgan Stanley, Mr. Parr was with a group from First Boston that formed Wasserstein Perella. He rose to be Co-President. Mr. Parr’s current activities include:

• Chairman of the New York Philharmonic
• Chairman of Venetian Heritage
• Chairman of the Parr Center for Ethics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• Board; The Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Gary also served on the Board of Berkeley Divinity School of Yale.
University of North Carolina, with honors, Phi Beta Kappa and Beta Gamma Sigma Northwestern University, M.B.A