Gordon Parker
Managing Director, Technology Services
Investment Banking
Gordon Parker is a managing director in the technology investment banking group at Piper Sandler.
Parker has over 17 years of investment banking experience in the U.S. and Asia. Prior to joining Piper Sandler, Parker was a partner at DBO Partners (DBO). His clients span a wide range of industries, including industrials, technology, consumer products and cannabis. Prior to joining DBO, Parker led Morgan Stanley’s Southeast Asia mergers & acquisitions business from 2013 to 2018. In this role, he advised local, regional and global companies and investors on acquisitions, divestitures and joint ventures. He was previously a member of the Asia M&A team, based in Hong Kong. In over 10 years based in Asia, Parker executed over $30 billion of complex, cross-border transactions for a diverse group of corporate, private equity and sovereign clients including AES, Aviva, Bank of Tokyo Mitsubishi, CITIC Capital, GE, KKR, Petronas, PetroVietnam, RBS, Temasek, TCC Group, TPG and Vietnam Airlines.
Prior to moving to Asia in 2007, Parker was a member of Morgan Stanley’s financial sponsors group based in New York, where he played a critical role in several industry-defining transactions such as the 2006 IPO of KKR PEI and the 2007 IPO of The Blackstone Group. He has advised on over $11 billion of equity IPOs and over $2 billion of lead-managed leveraged finance offerings in support of private equity clients.
Parker earned a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering with highest honors from the Georgia Institute of Technology and a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of North Carolina’s Kenan-Flagler Business School.
Parker has over 17 years of investment banking experience in the U.S. and Asia. Prior to joining Piper Sandler, Parker was a partner at DBO Partners (DBO). His clients span a wide range of industries, including industrials, technology, consumer products and cannabis. Prior to joining DBO, Parker led Morgan Stanley’s Southeast Asia mergers & acquisitions business from 2013 to 2018. In this role, he advised local, regional and global companies and investors on acquisitions, divestitures and joint ventures. He was previously a member of the Asia M&A team, based in Hong Kong. In over 10 years based in Asia, Parker executed over $30 billion of complex, cross-border transactions for a diverse group of corporate, private equity and sovereign clients including AES, Aviva, Bank of Tokyo Mitsubishi, CITIC Capital, GE, KKR, Petronas, PetroVietnam, RBS, Temasek, TCC Group, TPG and Vietnam Airlines.
Prior to moving to Asia in 2007, Parker was a member of Morgan Stanley’s financial sponsors group based in New York, where he played a critical role in several industry-defining transactions such as the 2006 IPO of KKR PEI and the 2007 IPO of The Blackstone Group. He has advised on over $11 billion of equity IPOs and over $2 billion of lead-managed leveraged finance offerings in support of private equity clients.
Parker earned a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering with highest honors from the Georgia Institute of Technology and a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of North Carolina’s Kenan-Flagler Business School.