biography
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Rohatyn, Felix (George)
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| lived:
| (1928– )
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| biography:
| Financier and writer, born in Vienna, Austria. His family fled the Nazis in the mid-1930s, settling first in France, then in the USA. He graduated from Middlebury College (1948), and joined Lazard Freres & Co, the investment house, that same year. In 1950 he became a naturalized US citizen and served in the army (including a tour in Korea) in 1951–3. He returned to Lazard and worked for the firm in Europe for several years during the 1950s. Named a general partner at Lazard (1961), he earned a reputation as a master arranger of corporate deals and mergers. He headed the New York Stock Exchange's crisis committee during a difficult period in 1970–1, working to supply financing to keep tottering companies from collapse. As unsalaried chairman of New York City's Municipal Assistance Corp in the late 1970s, he was credited with the key role in rescuing the nation's largest city from bankruptcy. In later years he wrote extensively on economic issues, revealing generally liberal sympathies in relating them to America's social problems. |
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