Felix Rohatyn
Felix Rohatyn
Felix George Rohatynis an American investment banker. He has spent most of his career with Lazard, where he brokered numerous large corporate mergers and acquisitions from the 1960s through the 1990s. In 1975, he played a central role in preventing the bankruptcy of New York City as chairman of the Municipal Assistance Corp.and chief negotiator between the city, its labor unions and its creditors...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
Date of Birth29 May 1928
CountryUnited States of America
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What is desperately needed... is the skepticism and the sense of history that a liberal arts education provides.
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The early years of my life were very, very traumatic. It was scary, because any child knew that death was sort of lurking around Europe as far as Jews were concerned.
Saving New York City from bankruptcy is like making love to a gorilla. You don't stop when you're tired; you stop when he's tired.