David Chen

Dave is the Head of Global Technology Investment Banking for Morgan Stanley and has over 25 years of investment banking experience.  In cybersecurity, Dave has had the privilege of advising on key transactions including the Direct Listings for Palantir and IPOs for Avast, McAfee, Fireeye, Fortinet, Palo Alto Networks, SentinelOne, Zscaler and many others. He has also advised on M&A transactions such as CyberArk’s $1.5bn acquisition of Venafi, the $28bn sale of Splunk to Cisco, Thales’ $3.6bn acquisition of Imperva from Thoma Bravo, $7.7bn sale of McAfee to Intel,  the $1bn acquisition of Mandiant by FireEye, and more. On the private financing side, Dave served as lead placement agent on ForeScout's $76mm, Arctic Wolf’s $401mm and Netskope’s $401mm financing round.