Eric Gleacher

Mr. Gleacher, a banker at Lehman Brothers and Morgan Stanley who participated in the fight over RJR Nabisco, started the bank in 1990. He sold it in 1995 to National Westminster Bank, but then took it private four years later. In 2009, amid a slump on Wall Street, the bank was acquired by the brokerage firm Broadpoint Securities, which adopted the Gleacher name. With mounting losses, the bank announced in 2012 that it was exploring a sale. But no buyers materialized. Mr. Gleacher, the chairman at the time, departed the firm early last year.