Gary Wilton Parr is a Deputy Chairman of Lazard. Lazard Ltd ( is the parent company of Lazard LLC a New York -based independent Investment bank with approximately 2400 employees in 41 cities across 24 countries He has focused on providing strategic advice to financial institutions worldwide. Prior to joining, he was with Morgan Stanley serving in numerous capacities over the years. Morgan Stanley ( is a global Financial services provider headquartered in New York City New York United States Parr spent his freshman and sophomore years at NC State University improving his grades [1] and then transferred to UNC for his junior and senior years. He graduated from the University of North Carolina with honors, Phi Beta Kappa and Beta Gamma Sigma, and received his MBA at Northwestern University. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ( UNC, North Carolina, or simply Carolina) is a public, Coeducational Research The Phi Beta Kappa Society is an academic Honor society with the mission of "fostering and recognizing excellence" in the Undergraduate Liberal arts Beta Gamma Sigma or ΒΓΣ is an Honor society for business students and scholars
During his tenure at Morgan Stanley, Parr served as the Vice-Chairman of theInstitutional Securities and Investment Banking, as the Chairman and Head of the Global Financial Institutions Group, as the Co-Head of the Global Mergers and Acquisitions Department, and as the Chairman of the Princes Gate Fund.
Prior to Morgan Stanley, Parr was with a group from First Boston that formed Wasserstein Perella, where he rose to be Co-President. First Boston Corporation was a New York-based Investment bank, founded in 1932 and acquired by Credit Suisse in 1988 when it became 'CS First Boston' Wasserstein Perella & Co (sometimes referred to as "Wasserella" was an investment bank established by Bruce Wasserstein and Joseph R
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