Bio

Brendan Panda is a Senior Managing Director in the firm’s strategic advisory business focused on Aerospace & Defense and Government Services. Since joining Evercore in 2008, Mr. Panda advised CSRA on its sale to General Dynamics, Airbus on the sale of its Defense Electronics business to KKR, Harris on the sale of its IT Services business to Veritas, Carlyle Group on its restructuring of Sequa, Harris on the sale of CapRock Communications to SpeedCast, AS&E on its sale to OSI Systems, Carlyle Group on the sale of ARINC to Rockwell Collins, Wesco Aircraft on its acquisition of Haas Group, J.F. Lehman on the sale of Drew Marine and ACR to the Jordan Company, Ericsson on the sale of Applied Communication Sciences to Vencore, Cobham on the sale of ACR/Artex to J.F. Lehman, Lockheed Martin on the sale of PAE to Lindsay Goldberg, Carlyle Group on the sale of Vought Aircraft to Triumph Group, Cerberus on the LBO of DynCorp International and J.F. Lehman on the sale of Atlantic Inertial Systems to Goodrich, among other transactions. Prior to joining Evercore, Mr. Panda was at Lehman Brothers where he advised on a broad range of M&A and capital raising transactions in the Aerospace & Defense, Industrial and Financial Sponsors sectors. Select transactions include the acquisitions of Sequa, Air Canada Technical Services, ARINC, McKechnie Aerospace, Raytheon Aircraft Company, Wesco Aircraft and Booz Allen Hamilton; the recapitalization and subsequent sale of Firth Rixson and numerous financings for TransDigm, Vought Aircraft, Spirit AeroSystems and Standard Aero. Mr. Panda holds a degree in Economics from Dartmouth College.