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. 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.
Family
Bruce Wasserstein is the brother of playwright Wendy Wasserstein.
School
Graduate of Harvard Business School.
BooksWith Justice for Some: An Indictment of the Law by Young Advocates (1972, ISBN 080700541X)Corporate Finance Law (1978, ISBN 0070684235)Big Deal: The Battle for the Control of America's Leading Corporations (1988, ISBN 0446675210)
External linksBooksBruce Wasserstein - Big Deal: Mergers and Acquisitions in the Digital Age
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