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...graduate of Duke and Harvard Business School, Pearlman worked two years for Plaza Securities, the firm of Corporate Raider Asher Edelman. Says Pearlman: "I don't think that age is the most important factor. It's doing your homework and understanding what needs to be done." Evidently, Wall Street agrees. Bankers Trust has offered Pearlman financing worth $120 million, proving that it thinks the young man's takeover is anything but kid stuff...
...other players think that now is a good time to get into the game. Says T. Boone Pickens, the Texas oilman and raider extraordinaire: "If companies were attractive targets when the Dow was at 2500, they will be even more attractive with the Dow at 1800." Manhattan Financier Asher Edelman has spent $72 million since late August to accumulate 11.5% of Foster Wheeler, a New Jersey-based construction company; much of the buying came as the firm's stock tumbled, from $21 to $11.25, amid the crash. Paul Bilzerian, a Florida investor who has made more than $50 million...
...ASHER EDELMAN generates equal amounts of enmity and sympathy for offering $100,000 to that student in his class who could find a likely corporate takeover target for the master of that financial maneuver. Most business school administrators, including Thomas R. Piper, a Harvard B-School administrator, roundly criticized Edelman's offer, charging that it violated the sancitity of the classroom...
...Asher B. Edelman, an adjunct professor at the Columbia Business School who also owns a firm specializing in corporate takeovers, offered the money as part of his seminar, "Corporate Raiding...
...California State University at Long Beach, the administration has taken no action. "We feel that our students are intelligent enough when they read an editorial that they know who wrote the editorial and what it represents," said Eugene L. Asher, executive assistant to the president. UMASS-AMHERST COLLEGE...