Word: rjr
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Jewett '57, asking the college to adopt a policy on accepting funds from "companies whose products we do not want our students using. "This concern, which apparently was shared by members of the administration, seems strange after decades of University investment in South Africa and such worthy causes as RJR Nabisco...
Robinson's aggressive p.r. tactics have sometimes misfired. In the tangled fight for RJR Nabisco, she failed to soften the reckless bravado of client Ross Johnson in his abortive attempt to buy the food and tobacco company he headed. The defeat was a setback for her husband too. American Express's Shearson Lehman unit had bankrolled Johnson, and Jim Robinson had worked closely on the deal. More recently, she sought to portray Milken as a misunderstood benefactor of the poor. But the campaign had little impact on perceptions of the junk man, who is serving a 10-year sentence...
Such mergers are red meat to Wall Street, even if the fees they generate cannot match the profits from takeover wars. Investment bankers, lawyers and accountants raked in a staggering $1 billion for plotting strategy and raising the cash that enabled the buyout firm Kohlberg Kravitz Roberts to acquire RJR Nabisco for $25 billion in 1989. But the new deals are smaller and generally arranged by executives of the merger partners, so advisers play a smaller role and receive a correspondingly thinner slice of the overall purchase price...
...triumph came the same day that KKR's crown jewel, RJR Nabisco, reported its first quarterly profit since the grand acquisitor bought it for $25 billion in 1989. RJR eked out a $5 million gain for the first quarter of 1991, in contrast to a $222 million loss for the same period a year ago. The improvement reflected RJR's drive to reduce its towering interest expense...
...Your Chairman displayed exquisite timing," he writes about his purchase of a large stake in USAir. "I plunged into the business at almost the exact moment that it ran into severe problems." Buffett also notes his purchase since late 1989 of $440 million of RJR Nabisco junk bonds. A crazy investment? He acknowledges that he's leery of new issues of junk bonds ("The only time to buy these is on a day with no y in it"), but the RJR bonds have been traded for a while -- and Buffett says their market value has increased $150 million since...