with John Updike, David Herbert Donald, Helen Suzman and more on Jan 1, 2010
with Bruce Wasserstein on Jan 4, 2006
Bruce Wasserstein 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.
Wasserstein has helped broker more than a thousand transactions worth $250 billion since the 1980s. Starting his career as an attoryney at Cravath, Swaine & Moore, he later rose to co-head of First Boston Corp.’s dominant merger and acquisition practice. He formed the boutique investment bank, Wasserstein Perella & Co., which he sold in 2000 to Germany’s Dresdner Bank for $1.5 billion. 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.
