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8 unusual facts about Goldman Sachs


De Kersentuin

In 2004, the whole Queens Moat Houses, parent company of the Bilderberg Group, was sold to "Whitehall", part of Goldman Sachs.

Dorothy Annan

The building is owned by Goldman Sachs, who wish to redevelop the site and oppose the listing of the murals.

Frank Smeal

Frank Paul Smeal (August 7, 1918 – April 8, 2003) was a partner of the Goldman Sachs Group of New York City.

Louisiana state elections, 2010

Besides contributions to Clinton, Kerry, former state senator Cleo Fields, and former U.S. Representative William J. Jefferson, a Dardenne commercial criticized Fayard's previous employment by Goldman Sachs, which later received a federal bailout: "Analysts like Fayard got rich but cost us billions."

Matter Under Inquiry

According to former SEC employee and whistleblower Darcy Flynn, as reported by Matt Taibbi in Rolling Stone in 2011, the agency routinely destroyed thousands and thousands of MUI documents related to investigations of alleged crimes committed by Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs, Lehman Brothers, SAC Capital, and other financial companies involved in the Great Recession that the SEC was supposed to have been regulating.

Roppongi, Minato, Tokyo

A number of multinational firms have their Japanese offices in Roppongi, including investment banks Credit Suisse, Goldman Sachs, State Street, manufacturer Corning Incorporated, and law firms Allen & Overy, Davis Polk & Wardwell, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe and Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom.

Students for Organ Donation

It was also awarded a $10,000 Do Something BRICK Award and $5,000 Goldman Sachs Global Leaders Social Entrepreneurship Grant to fund expansion.

Vista Equity Partners

Prior to founding Vista Equity, Smith was the co-head of the enterprise systems and storage sector for Goldman Sachs' investment banking division.


A.S. Watson Group

Towards the end of 2013 Li Ka-shing appointed three Banks, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Goldman Sachs and HSBC take control of a share sale of the A.S Watson Group during 2014.

AQR Capital

AQR Capital Management is an investment management firm founded in 1998 by former Goldman Sachs portfolio manager Clifford S. Asness along with partners David Kabiller, John Liew and Robert Krail (all also from Goldman).

Bethuel M. Webster

With Webster & Sheffield, Webster represented a number of high-profile clients including Goldman Sachs, Consolidated Edison, the Ford Foundation, the New York City Public Library, and Carnegie Hall.

Catastrophe bond

Investment banks and Inter Dealer Brokers that are active in the trading and issuance of catastrophe bonds include Aon Benfield Securities, Inc., BNP Paribas, Tullett Prebon, Swiss Re Capital Markets, GC Securities (a division of MMC Securities Corp. and affiliate of Guy Carpenter), Goldman Sachs, Munich Re Capital Markets, Barclays Capital, Deutsche Bank, JP Morgan, and Willis Capital Markets.

Chris Roebuck

After leaving the Army Roebuck used his knowledge of leadership to develop performance improvement initiatives in organisations such as Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs, Bank of New York, Bank of England, and other financial institutions; Arts Council, legal firms and UK Government.

Coast to Coast Tickets

In 2005, the company grew again when Jason Randall (formerly of the Boston Consulting Group, Goldman Sachs and Deloitte & Touche) left his position as Director of Brand Marketing at Maritz Inc. to join Coast to Coast as CEO.

Fares D. Noujaim

Mr. Noujaim began his career with Goldman Sachs in 1985 and has served on the Board of International College as well as The National Council of Economic Education.

Gide Loyrette Nouel

Legal counsel to the The Linde Group as to French law in its €4 billion sale of its forklift division to Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co and Goldman Sachs (November 2006).

Global elite

Some of them work for large corporations such as Goldman Sachs and Bank of America.

Harvard Summit for Young Leaders in China

HSYLC 2006, supported by the Goldman Sachs Foundation and American Airlines, recruited 37 Harvard students to create and teach a curriculum at a school in Shanghai.

Initial public offering

Documents under seal in a decade-long lawsuit concerning eToys.com's IPO but obtained by New York Times Wall Street Business columnist Joe Nocera alleged that IPOs managed by Goldman Sachs and other investment bankers involved asking for kickbacks from their institutional clients who made large profits flipping IPOs which Goldman had intentionally undervalued.

JustGive

Employees and Board members have worked for the following companies: Ashoka, ChoiceStream, Goldman Sachs, Netbooks, Pepsi, TPG Capital, TechTV, Twitter, World Bank, and UBS.

Lyndon Lea

In 1990, after graduating in business administration from the University of Western Ontario, his career started in the mergers and acquisitions department of Goldman Sachs in New York.

Mannesmann

The acquisition was led by Vodafone's Chief Executive, Chris Gent, and Goldman Sachs' Scott Mead, who was then the chief advisor on the deal.

MF Global

Jon Corzine, former CEO of Goldman Sachs, Governor of New Jersey, and United States Senator, began his tenure as CEO of MF Global in March 2010.

Oberon Media

Founded in 2003, Oberon Media is headquartered in New York with offices in North America, Europe and Asia, and is backed by Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and Oak Investment Partners.

Operation Broken Trust

Reactions to Holder's announcement about Operation Broken Trust were framed by the apparent lack of governmental efforts of prosecuting individuals who may bear responsibility for the 2008 financial crisis, specifically since nobody at Lehman, Merrill Lynch, Citigroup, and Goldman Sachs (other than Fabrice Tourre) has been charged criminally.

PERI

The CEO Alexander Schwörer, graduated from the Tuck School of Business in 2002 and the CEO Christian Schwörer formerly worked at Goldman Sachs.

RJR Nabisco

A fierce series of negotiations and proposals ensued which involved nearly all of the major private equity players of the day, including Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, Salomon Brothers, First Boston, Wasserstein Perella & Co., Forstmann Little, Shearson Lehman Hutton, and Merrill Lynch.

Russian Direct Investment Fund

During the 2012 St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, President Vladimir Putin announced the formation of an investment consortium between RDIF, BlackRock, Goldman Sachs, and Templeton Asset Management to provide pre-IPO support to Russian companies listing on the Moscow stock exchange MICEX-RTS.

Skandia

The CEO of American Skandia, Wade Dokken partnered with Goldman Sachs and sold the division to Prudential Financial for $1.2 billion.

Sonita Lontoh

Lontoh is a member of 85 Broads, a global network for professional women originally founded in 1997 as a network for current and former Goldman Sachs women who worked at 85 Broad Street, the firm’s NYC headquarters, and at other Goldman Sachs offices worldwide.

Stephen Altschul

He is the son of Stephanie Rosemary (née Wagner) and Arthur Altschul, a former partner at Goldman Sachs.

Susquehanna International Group

SIG is a specialist or DPM (designated primary market maker) in approximately 600 equity options and 45 index options on the CBOE, AMEX, PHLX, and ISE, including big name equities such as Google, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, GE, PepsiCo, and Microsoft and indices such as Nasdaq and Russell 2000 options.

Teach For India

Many TFI Fellows in recent years are young professionals who have worked in the corporate sector for organisations such as Goldman Sachs, McKinsey, Microsoft, JPMorgan, Hindustan Unilever, Infosys, Thermax and Siemens.

The Harvard Project for Asian and International Relations

HPAIR often invites speakers who are successful in the world of business, like the Chairman and CEO of Ayala Corporation Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala (Harvard '81 / HBS '87), CEO of Haier Zhang Ruimin, Chairman of Prudential Asia Victor Fung and President of Goldman Sachs Asia Philip D. Murphy.

The Nature Conservancy

The Nature Conservancy is led by President and CEO Mark Tercek, a former managing director at Goldman Sachs, and an adjunct professor at New York University Stern School of Business.

Village Voice Media

Until 2012, Goldman Sachs owned 16% of Village Voice Media, but sold its shares soon after Nicholas Kristof of the New York Times publicized the fact and began asking them questions about its stake.

Weekend City Press Review

The service is popular in the city, with prominent users such as KPMG, Goldman Sachs, Rothschilds, Slaughter and May, Deloitte, and J.P. Morgan Cazenove.

William Lerach

Lerach was involved in many securities class action and corporate derivative suits in recent years, including Enron, Dynegy, Qwest, WorldCom, Citibank, Drexel Burnham, Tyco, Merrill Lynch, Bank of America, Disney, Goldman Sachs, Credit Suisse First Boston, Global Crossing, AT&T, Hewlett-Packard, Apple Computer, ExxonMobil, R.J. Reynolds, Arthur Andersen, and AOL Time Warner.

WindowsWear

WindowsWear has funding from investors at companies such as Goldman Sachs, Barclays Capital, Coach, Inc., eBay, and Nomura Securities.


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Andrew Szanton

During his career he has worked with a wide range of subjects including civil rights pioneer Charles Evers, Nobel Prize winning physicist Eugene Wigner, former co-chairman of Goldman Sachs John Whitehead, former United States Senator Edward Brooke, founding director of Xerox PARC George Pake, eminent surgeon Dr. Charles Epps, and head of the Missouri Botanical Garden Peter Raven.

Commodity index fund

Leah McGrath Goodman, a reporter with experience covering commodities markets, described an experience writing about the Goldman Sachs Commodities Index in her book "The Asylum".

Dave Hartnett

Hartnett was presented by activists from UK Uncut with a spoof "Golden Handshake award" at a New College Oxford dinner honoring his retirement in September 2012: several activists donned evening dress and name badges indicating they were from Vodafone and Goldman Sachs and effused over Hartnett's help in saving those companies billions of pounds in taxes.

Grupo Clarín

Grupo Clarín was listed in the Buenos Aires and London Stock Exchanges in 2007, upon which a 20% share in the group was made available to stockholders (leaving 9% for Goldman Sachs, and 71% for its private shareholders).

Henry Goldman

Goldman supported the Germans, even after America entered the war in 1917, and refused to allow Goldman Sachs to participate in a $150 million Anglo-French bond issue arranged by J. P. Morgan.

Investment banking

A number of former Goldman-Sachs top executives, such as Henry Paulson and Ed Liddy were in high-level positions in government and oversaw the controversial taxpayer-funded bank bailout.

Documents under seal in a decade-long lawsuit concerning eToys.com's IPO but obtained by New York Times Wall Street Business columnist Joe Nocera alleged that IPOs managed by Goldman Sachs and other investment bankers involved asking for kickbacks from their institutional clients who made large profits flipping IPOs which Goldman had intentionally undervalued.

Manchester Independent Economic Review

The Review panel is an independent panel of economists and business leaders, led by Sir Tom McKillop, Chairman of the Review panel, Jim O’Neill - Head of Global Economic Research for Goldman Sachs, Professor Edward Glaeser - Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics at the University of Harvard, Diane Coyle - Managing Director of Enlightenment Economics and Jonathan Kestenbaum - Chief Executive of NESTA, The National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts.

Rudolf Ferscha

Ferscha joined Deutsche Börse AG as an executive board member from Goldman Sachs, their investment bankers, shortly before the company’s IPO.

Siri von Reis

She was married to Jewish American banker Arthur Goodhart Altschul (1920 – 2002) who was a Goldman Sachs Group partner.

The Phoenix – S K Club

Eric Mindich (1988): Youngest partner in Goldman Sachs history at age 27 and founder of Eton Park Capital Management

Tim Willoughby

Having left Goldman Sachs in late 2007, Willoughby was due to start work at the firm of Citi Smith Barney on 10 January 2008, but died suddenly on 9 January 2008 after suffering a heart attack on board a flight from the United States to Singapore, returning home from a family holiday in New Mexico.