Bio

Len Sheer is president of Piper Sandler Finance, LLC and head of the Piper Sandler & Co. capital advisory group, which includes debt capital markets and equity private placements. In this role, Sheer manages all corporate debt new issue financing activity, restructuring advisory and minority equity private placements. Sheer joined Piper Sandler from Cowen Group, Inc., where he co-founded and was co-head of debt capital markets. Previously, he was a managing director in debt capital markets at Gleacher & Company and a senior analyst at the debt- and equity-specialized hedge fund, Pardus Capital. Prior to Pardus, Sheer was an M&A officer at Lehman Brothers and BNY Mellon. He began his career as an associate at Fieldstone Private Capital Group.