Bruce Wasserstein (born December 25, 1947 in Brooklyn, New York)^[1] is an American investment banker and businessman. He is a graduate of the University of Michigan, Harvard Business School, and Harvard Law School, and is currently the Chairman and CEO of Lazard LLC. December 25 is the 359th day of the year (360th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 6 days remaining in the year. ... 1947 (MCMXLVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1947 calendar). ... For other meanings, see Brooklyn (disambiguation). ... The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (UM, U of M or U-M) is a coeducational public research university in the state of Michigan. ... Harvard Business School, officially named the Harvard Business School: George F. Baker Foundation, and also known as HBS, is one of the graduate schools of Harvard University. ... Harvard Law School, often referred to in shorthand as Harvard Law or HLS, is one of the professional graduate schools of Harvard University. ... Lazard LLC NYSE: LAZ is a New York-based, independent investment bank with more than 2,500 employees in Asia, North America, and Europe. ...

Born in Brooklyn, New York, to Morris Wasserstein, a wealthy textile executive, and his wife, Lola Schleifer, Wasserstein is one of five children. He has two late sisters: pioneering busineswoman Sandra Meyer and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Wendy Wasserstein, whose daughter he is now raising. His maternal grandfather was Simon Schleifer, a prominent Polish Jewish playwright who moved to Paterson, New Jersey and became a Hebrew school principal. This article needs additional references or sources for verification. ... NY redirects here. ... The Pulitzer Prize is an American award regarded as the highest national honor in print journalism, literary achievements, and musical composition. ... Wendy Wasserstein (October 18, 1950 – January 30, 2006) was an award-winning American playwright and an Andrew Dickson White Professor-at-Large at Cornell University. ... The word Jew ( Hebrew: יהודי) is used in a wide number of ways, but generally refers to a follower of the Jewish faith, a child of a Jewish mother, or someone of Jewish descent with a connection to Jewish culture or ethnicity and often a combination... View of Paterson New Jersey 1880. ... Official language(s) English de facto Capital Trenton Largest city Newark Area  Ranked 47th  - Total 8,729 sq mi (22,608 km²)  - Width 70 miles (110 km)  - Length 150 miles (240 km)  - % water 14. ...

Wasserstein has helped broker more than a thousand transactions worth $250 billion since the 1980s. Starting his career as a Cravath, Swaine & Moore attorney, he later rose to co-head of First Boston Corp.'s dominant merger and acquisition practice. Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP (Cravath) is one of the most renowned and prestigious law firms in the United States. ... An attorney is someone who represents someone else in the transaction of business: For attorney-at-law, see lawyer, solicitor, barrister or civil law notary. ... First Boston Corporation was a New York-based investment bank, founded in 1932 and acquired by Credit Suisse in 1988, when it became CS First Boston. Globally referred to as Credit Suisse First Boston after 1996, the First Boston part of the name was phased out in 2006. ... The phrase mergers and acquisitions (M&A) refers to the aspect of business strategy and management dealing with the merging and/or acquiring of different companies. ...

He eventually formed investment bank boutique Wasserstein Perella & Co., which he sold in 2000, at the top of the 1990s bull market, to Germany's Dresdner Bank for $1.5 billion. He left the unit Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein (formed by merging Dresdner's UK unit Kleinwort Benson with Wasserstein Perella) to take the job at Lazard Frères. To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Look up boutique in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Wasserstein Perella & Co. ... A bull market is a prolonged period of time when prices are rising in a financial market faster than their historical average. ... The 1978 Silver Tower houses part of the head office of the Dresdner bank. ... // Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein (DrKW) is the investment bank of Dresdner Bank AG, part of Allianz since July 2001. ... Kleinwort Benson was a merchant bank based in London. ...

In 2005 Wasserstein completed the initial public offering of Lazard after getting into a corporate fight with Chairman Michel David-Weill who said that he regretted having ever hired Wasserstein. An initial public offering (IPO) is the first sale of a corporations common shares to investors on a public stock exchange. ... Lazard Ltd. ... Michel David-Weill (born November 23, 1932 in Paris, France) is a Jewish investment banker and former Chairman of New York City based Lazard Frères. ...

Bruce Wasserstein controls Wasserstein & Co., a private equity firm with investments in a number of industries, particularly media. In 2004 he added New York Magazine to his growing media empire. In July 2007, he sold American Lawyer Media to Incisive Media. Private equity is a broad term that refers to any type of equity investment in an asset in which the equity is not freely tradable on a public stock market. ... This article or section needs a complete rewrite for the reasons listed on the talk page. ... American Lawyer Media or ALM, publishes magazines and newspapers targeting primarily the legal industry, but also business, real estate and finance. ...

After bequesting a large donation to Harvard Law School, the large academic wing of the school's new Northwest Corner complex will be named Wasserstein Hall, in his honor. Harvard Law School, often referred to in shorthand as Harvard Law or HLS, is one of the professional graduate schools of Harvard University. ...

Books

• With Justice for Some: An Indictment of the Law by Young Advocates (1972, ISBN 0-8070-0541-X)
• Corporate Finance Law (1978, ISBN 0-07-068423-5)
• Big Deal: The Battle for the Control of America's Leading Corporations (1988, ISBN 0-446-67521-0)
• Big Deal: Mergers and Acquisitions in the Digital Age (2001, ISBN 0-446-67521-0), second edition of above book.

References

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External link

• Wasserstein & Co. site.