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...largest gifts came from campaign chairman Finn M.W. Caspersen and the family of Lazard CEO Bruce J. Wasserstein, who donated $30 million and $25 million, respectively—the two largest donations in the school’s history. The Wassersteins’ and Caspersen’s gifts will go toward a facility housing an academic center, a student center, and offices for legal clinics...
...lobby played a large role in Merkel's "dramatic" climbdown from her outright endorsement of Georgia's NATO membership in Tbilisi last month to her softer stance in Brussels. John Kornblum, a former U.S. ambassador to Germany who is now the chairman of the German unit of investment bank Lazard, says that while he opposes sanctions himself, Germany's tolerant attitude toward Russia goes even deeper. "Germans are very, very ready to take the Russians' side," he says. "This crisis will make the appeasers even more appeasing than they have been until...
Wall Street professionals who, in a case unrelated to that of Levine, two weeks ago pleaded guilty to charges of insider trading and obstructing justice. In that turbulent climate, the Wall Street Journal stirred up instant thunder last week by claiming that unnamed investment bankers at the houses of Lazard Freres and Goldman Sachs were under SEC investigation in the Levine scandal. Officials at both firms promptly denied the report. One man that Government sources affirm is under investigation, however, is Robert Wilkis, 37, a former vice president at both Lazard Freres and E.F. Hutton. Wilkis resigned from his Hutton...
...School, which launched a $400 million capital campaign in 2003, received a $22.5 million donation from the family of Bruce J. Wasserstein, the CEO of Lazard Ltd. and a graduate of the Harvard Law and Business schools...
...sits on both the Dean’s Advisory Board and the executive committee of the capital campaign—is also a close friend of former Law School Dean Robert C. Clark. Clark has served on the boards of several companies controlled by Wasserstein, including Lazard, Maybelline, and American Lawyer Media Holdings. Three of Wasserstein’s children also attended Harvard College...