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Chairman Gary W. Parr
Gary W. Parr is a vice chairman of Lazard, and for more than 25 years has focused on providing strategic advice to financial institutions worldwide. Prior to joining Lazard, he served in numerous capacities at Morgan Stanley, including as vice-chairman — Institutional Securities and Investment Banking; chairman and head of the Global Financial Institutions Group; co-head of the Global Mergers and Acquisitions Department; and chairman of the Princes Gate Fund. Prior to Morgan Stanley, he was with a group from First Boston that formed Wasserstein Perella, where he became co-president.
In his position at Lazard, Mr. Parr has recently advised on transactions such as the sale of Lehman’s North American investment banking business to Barclay’s; the sale of Bear Stearns to JPMorgan; the Board of Fannie Mae in the U.S.-led restructuring; Mitsubishi’s 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; JPMorgan’s acquisition of Bank One; New York Stock Exchange’s merger with Archipelago; Temasak’s purchase of the Khoo stake in Standard Chartered Bank; MBIA’s equity capital raising from Warburg Pincus; Mitsubishi Tokyo’s acquisition of UFJ Holdings; and the merger of Lincoln Financial and Jefferson Pilot.
Gary W. Parr currently serves as chairman of the Parr Center for Ethics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and is chairman of the board of Venetian Heritage. He is on the boards of Lazard, the New York Philharmonic, The Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Mingya (China). Previously, he was on the board of Berkeley Divinity School at Yale. He graduated with honors, Phi Beta Kappa, and Beta Gamma Sigma from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and received an M.B.A. from Northwestern University.
