• Lazard appointed Matt Spence as head of defense technology and emerging technology in its Technology Group, based in San Francisco.
• Spence will advise defense, security, and other advanced technology companies on M&A transactions, financings.
• He previously served as managing director, global head of venture capital banking at Barclays, building its defense-tech, dual-use investment banking franchise.
• Earlier roles included senior posts at Guggenheim Partners, partner at Andreessen Horowitz, national security roles in the U.S. government.

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