David Iverson is a managing director at Lazard Middle Market where he has worked for more than ten years. Mr. Iverson co-heads the food and agriculture practice and is the lead relationship banker for the firm’s business in Canada. His food and agriculture experience includes working with businesses in virtually every sector of the food chain - from animal production to retail and foodservice. Mr. Iverson has worked with food and agriculture clients on both buy-side and sell-side M&A, refinancings and capital raises, restructurings, and public market work. Lazard Middle Market’s food and agriculture practice was started in the late 1990s and is among the firm’s most developed practices.

Previously, Mr. Iverson was a director in the corporate accounting and finance department at Deluxe Corporation, a $2 billion diversified manufacturing and technology holding company. Prior to Deluxe, Mr. Iverson was an accountant with the entrepreneurial advisory services group of Coopers & Lybrand (now PriceWaterhouseCoopers), where he worked with a number of food and agriculture clients.

Mr. Iverson is a certified public accountant. He received a Master of Business Administration degree from Harvard Business School and undergraduate degree in business administration from the University of Notre Dame.