Lazard chairman backs flotation - at a price
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MICHEL DAVID-WEILL has approved a flotation of Lazard that values the investment bank his family founded at $3.4 billion. The approval is on condition that Bruce Wasserstein, the Wall Street dealmaker running the firm, resigns if the deal fails.
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Staff at Lazard, the 150-year-old investment bank that is preparing a $3bn (Â£1.53bn) flotation in New York next year, will be forced to sacrifice about $200m in pay
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Shares in James Hardie Industries NV rallied on news that two key executives will stand aside, rather than resign, over the company&#39;s underfunding of asbestos compensation.
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PeopleSoft may be willing to be bought by Oracle after all--if the price is right. Steven Goldby, a PeopleSoft board member, testified Tuesday in the trial taking place in Delaware that a sale would be possible
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Shares of Alcan Inc. &lt;AL.TO&gt; &lt;AL.N&gt; rose some 3 percent on Wednesday morning on a report it was talking to BHP Billiton &lt;BHP.AX&gt; &lt;BHP.N&gt; as the Canadian aluminum maker opposes a hostile $28 billion bid by U.S. rival Alcoa Inc. &lt;AA.N&gt;.
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The battle within Lazard over a proposed initial public offering came to a head as the firm's chairman gave his consent with one colossal caveat.
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Business & money: Microsoft chairman denies the software giant is renegotiating its 'full and very fair' takeover offer
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Investment bank Lazard filed yesterday for its long-awaited initial public offering, asking to sell up to $850 million in stock.
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Billionaire gives beleaguered European reinsurer and peers a vote of confidence with 3% investment.
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BRUCE Wasserstein, the chief executive of Lazard, will be expected to leave if he fails to get a near-$3bn (Â£1.64bn) float of the investment bank away by next June.
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A former in-house Enron Corp. accountant said he was convinced that the energy giant&#39;s unofficial promise to buy back several barges sold to Merrill Lynch &amp; Co.
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Bruce Wasserstein, head of Lazard LLC, filed today to sell $850 million of shares of the largest closely held investment banking partnership, moving toward a resolution of a feud between two powers of the financial world.
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Long-standing Finnish bourse candidate Ahlstrom could be in shape for a flotation within two years, the specialty paper and fibre materials group's incoming chief executive said on Friday.
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The buyout for the ice manufacturer is on the rocks.
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The share price of Standard Life has risen following flotation of its stock on the British stock market.
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The new head of the state French electricity utility EDF is considering a part flotation before the end of 2005, French Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin said in a newspaper interview on Thursday.
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Man Group , the world's biggest listed hedge fund firm, has set the indicative price range for the flotation of its U.S. brokerage arm, MF Global, valuing the unit between $4.6 billion and $5 billion.