Word: lazard
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...anniversary of that dire event rolled around, new voices raised similar cautions. Said Robert Reich, a lecturer in public policy at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government: "In America, industry has become the plaything of finance." Banker Felix Rohatyn, a partner in the Manhattan investment firm of Lazard Freres and a frequent critic of Wall Street's excesses, goes further. Says he: "Now the whole world is a casino. Las Vegas, at least, closes at 5 a.m. This thing does...
When the Securities and Exchange Commission snared Dennis Levine two months ago in the biggest insider-trading case ever, jittery Wall Streeters were sure the scandal would spread. Last week it did. Robert Wilkis, 37, until June a first vice president of E.F. Hutton and at one time with Lazard Freres, and Ira Sokolow, 32, a former vice president of Shearson Lehman Bros., were accused in a civil complaint drawn up by the SEC of conspiring with Levine, 33, a former managing director of Drexel Burnham Lambert, as part of an insider-trading ring. They allegedly enriched themselves by using...
Raines, a general partner in the internationalbanking concern Lazard Freres, said he was notasked about his position on divestment whenselected by the Alumni Association to run for theboard...
...first step in GE's courtship of RCA came about two months ago, Welch says, in an early-morning telephone call he made to Felix Rohatyn, a partner in the Lazard Freres investment banking firm and one of Wall Street's leading merger specialists (see following story). "Can you arrange for me to meet Brad?" asked Welch. The Brad in question was RCA Chairman Thornton Bradshaw, 68, who is a friend of Rohatyn's. In early November Rohatyn invited the two men to have a drink in his New York City apartment. They talked about the defense business...
...acquisitions are reshaping virtually every corner of the corporate landscape. While megadeals were once limited mainly to oil and other natural- resources giants, they are now affecting companies ranging from moviemakers to missile manufacturers. Says Felix Rohatyn, a senior partner in the investment banking house Lazard Freres and a principal architect of the GE and RCA merger: "In my 35 years of business, I have never seen anything remotely approaching this year's tidal wave of takeovers, mergers and buyouts of every size and shape, including both very good and sound ones and extremely ill- conceived ones...