Bruce Wasserstein

Bruce Wasserstein (*1948) is the CEO of Lazard LLC. He 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 (bought by Credit Suisse in 1988) dominant M&A practice.

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1948 - Lazard LLC - Cravath, Swaine & Moore - Attorney - First Boston Corp. - Credit Suisse - M&A

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He eventually formed investment bank boutique Wasserstein Perella & Co., which he sold in 2000, at the top of the 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. In 2004 he added New York Magazine to his growing media empire. In 2005 Bruce completed the IPO of Lazard, taking them public after being the last of private firms on the street.

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Wasserstein Perella & Co. - Dresdner Bank - Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein - Kleinwort Benson

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