William Hickey is a managing director in the financial services group at Piper Sandler.

Previously, he was a principal at Sandler O’Neill + Partners, L.P., where he was responsible for providing merger & acquisition and general strategic planning advice for community banks nationwide. Sandler O’Neill regularly ranked among the top advisors to community banks, with Hickey spearheading this effort.

Over the last 20 years, Hickey has been one of the most active merger advisors to financial institutions and has built a substantial experience base for valuations and structure, on which many in the industry have come to rely. He has advised clients on a variety of transactions, including buy side, sell side, capital raising and divestitures. Hickey has worked extensively with both domestic and foreign financial institutions.

Hickey was one of the founders of the Investment Banking Group, which now numbers over 150 professionals in New York, Chicago, Atlanta and San Francisco.