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LEON BLACK founded Apollo Advisors, L.P. and Lion Advisors, L.P. to manage investment capital on behalf of a group of institutional investors, focusing on corporate restructuring, leveraged buyouts, and taking minority positions in growth-oriented companies. Since that time, Apollo and its affiliates have managed approximately $15 billion in such activities. Mr. Black also co-founded Apollo Real Estate Advisors, L.P., which since 1993 has invested in more than $5 billion of real estate-related assets. MORE |
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BRUCE WASSERSTEIN is Chairman and CEO of Lazard and is also Chairman of Wasserstein & Co. and The Deal LLC. Prior to joining Lazard, Mr. Wasserstein was Executive Chairman at Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein from January 2001 to November 2001. Prior to joining Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein, he served as CEO of Wasserstein Perella Group (an investment banking firm he co-founded) from February 1988 to January 2001, when Wasserstein Perella Group was sold to Dresdner Bank. MORE |
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DAVID M. RUBENSTEIN is a Co-Founder and Managing Director of The Carlyle Group, one of the world’s largest private equity firms. Mr. Rubenstein co-founded the firm in 1987. Since then, Carlyle has grown into a firm managing more than $70 billion from 30 offices around the world. Mr. Rubenstein, a native of Baltimore, is a 1970 magna cum laude graduate of Duke, where he was elected Phi Beta Kappa. Following Duke, Mr. Rubenstein graduated in 1973 from The University of Chicago Law School, where he was an editor of the Law Review. MORE |
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MARTIN LIPTON, a founding partner of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, specializes in advising major corporations on mergers and acquisitions and matters affecting corporate policy and strategy and has written and lectured extensively on these subjects. Mr. Lipton is Chairman of The Board of Trustees of New York University, a Trustee of the New York University School of Law (Chairman 1988-98), a member of the Council of the American Law Institute, Co-Chair of the Partnership for New York City (2004-2006), and a Director of the Institute of Judicial Administration. MORE |
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WILBUR ROSS, JR. is Chairman and CEO of WL Ross & Co. Mr. Ross may be the best known turnaround financier in the U.S., having been involved in the restructuring of over $200 billion of defaulted companies’ assets around the world. In 1998, Fortune Magazine called him “the King of Bankruptcy.” Mr. Ross organized International Steel Group in April 2002 and was its Board Chairman. By acquiring Bethlehem, LTV, Weirton, Acme, Georgetown and U.S. Steel’s plate operation, ISG became the largest integrated steel company in North America. MORE |
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