Investment banker, born in New York City, New York, USA. He studied at the University of Michigan (1967) and Harvard Business School (1971), and joined the First Boston Corp in 1977, rising to managing director and becoming, with colleague Joseph Perella, a noted leveraged buyout specialist. He and Perella formed their own firm, Wasserstein, Perella & Co, in 1988. His publications include Corporate Finance Law, Big Deal (1998), and Big Deal: 2000 and Beyond (2000). His sister is the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Wendy Wasserstein.
Born in Brooklyn, New York, to Morris Wasserstein, a wealthy textile executive, and his wife, Lola Schleifer, Wasserstein is one of four children, including late sister Wendy Wasserstein whose daughter he is now raising.
Wasserstein has helped broker more than a thousand transactions worth $250 billion since the 1980s.
He eventually formed investment bank boutique Wasserstein Perella & 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.
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.
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