Our Team

Donald Spencer

Managing Director

Donald P. Spencer is a Managing Director and founding principal of Siguler Guff.  Prior to 1995, Mr. Spencer was a Senior Vice President and portfolio manager in the Private Equity Group of PaineWebber, with responsibility for the evaluation, due diligence and monitoring of private equity investments and the administration of private equity funds managed by the Group. He joined the Private Equity Group in 1993 after four years as First Vice President and Associate General Counsel in the PaineWebber Legal department, where he had primary legal responsibility for the Private Equity Group, as well as varied responsibilities in PaineWebber’s mutual fund and institutional managed account business.

Before joining PaineWebber, Mr. Spencer was Senior Vice President and General Counsel of Atalanta/Sosnoff Capital Corporation. Mr. Spencer started his career in 1980 at Sullivan & Cromwell, where he represented financial services as well as investment banking clients. Mr. Spencer holds a B.A. from Wesleyan University and a J.D. from the New York University School of Law.