John Butler

John Butler is a managing director and head of insurance investment banking at Piper Sandler. Butler specializes in providing strategic advice to insurance underwriters, intermediaries and service providers. Butler has more than 25 years of insurance investment banking experience advising clients on mergers and acquisitions, public and private equity capital raises and other strategic alternatives. Previously, Butler was a partner at Sandler O’Neill + Partners, L.P. and a managing director at Piper Jaffray & Co. Butler began his professional career as a corporate securities attorney.
  
Butler received his Juris Doctor from the Fordham University School of Law and bachelor’s degree in government, cum laude, from Georgetown University. He is a contributing author of Insurance Industry Mergers & Acquisitions, published by the Society of Actuaries.