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6 unusual facts about Morgan Stanley


Cabot Square

The square includes a fountain and several works of art, and is the address for the London Offices of Credit Suisse and Morgan Stanley.

Camborne Hill

On 11 September 2001, Rick Rescorla, a chief security officer at the World Trade Center (WTC) in New York, originally from Hayle and a rugby man, sang Cornish rugby songs on his megaphone to keep morale high as he was evacuating over 2,000 employees of Morgan Stanley from the WTC's Second Tower.

Chandamama

In 1999, the company was floated as a public limited organization, with Morgan Stanley taking a sizable stake in the company.

MMCinemas

It was originally formed by Grupo Multimedios (largest media conglomerate in Northern Mexico), but in 2006 was sold to Southern Cross Group and Morgan Stanley.

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.

Robert Cimetta

He was on the 61st floor of the Morgan Stanley office, and managed to exit the tower before its collapse.


Alexa Von Tobel

After graduation, she worked as a trader at Morgan Stanley before leaving to be the Head of Business Development at Drop.io.

Brad S. Karp

His client list includes JPMorgan Chase, Wachovia, Morgan Stanley, Apollo Global Management, Merrill Lynch, Deloitte, MacAndrews & Forbes, ING, Bear Stearns, Ericsson, Hexion, Scottish Power and Eton Park in securities, commercial and regulatory matters.

Electronic message journaling

Morgan Stanley had a $1.45 billion judgment against them and Merrill Lynch was issued a $2.5 million fine because of their inability to reproduce e-mail transmissions.

Femi Hamzat

Sequel to this, he garnered about two decades of work experience in several organisations including the City of New York, RTP Consulting Services, Columbia University, Merrill Lynch Inc, Morgan Stanley and Oando Plc.

Gary Parr

’s investment in Morgan Stanley; the merger of Bank of New York and Mellon; the sale of Donaldson Lufkin & Jenrette to Credit Suisse First Boston; Dean Witter Discover’s merger with Morgan Stanley; and Berkshire Hathaway’s acquisition of GEICO.

GroupSpaces

Since 2007, GroupSpaces has worked with over 70 graduate recruiters including Allen & Overy, Clifford Chance, Slaughter & May, Freshfields, BCG, McKinsey & Company, Accenture, Deloitte, PwC, KPMG, Citi, JP Morgan, Barclays Capital, Morgan Stanley, Bank of England, Deutsche Bank, Credit Suisse, RBS, UBS, Lloyd's of London and the NHS.

J. P. Morgan, Jr.

The couple raised four children: Junius Spencer Morgan III; Henry Sturgis Morgan, a founding partner of Morgan Stanley; Jane Norton Morgan Nichols and Frances Tracy Pennoyer.

John Jannarone

Prior to that Jannarone worked as a deputy bureau chief at Dow Jones, as an analyst at The Hartnett Group in Dallas and at Morgan Stanley in New York.

Medcan Clinic

Since 2002, Medcan's CEO has been Dr. Francis' son, Shaun Francis, whose previous endeavors included undergraduate studies at the United States Naval Academy, working as an investment banker at New York's Morgan Stanley and receiving an MBA from the Wharton School.

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.

Scott Rothbort

Prior to working at Merrill Lynch, within the financial services industry he worked for County Nat West Securities and Morgan Stanley, where he had international assignments in Tokyo, Hong Kong, and London.

Thaksinomics

Among the most prominent advocates of Thaksin's economic policies is Morgan Stanley economist, Daniel Lian.

Thelen LLP

Represented underwriters led by Morgan Stanley with Credit Suisse as co-manager in a $1.135 billion debt offering portion of a leveraged lease financing of the Bruce Mansfield Unit 1 coal-fired generating station by FirstEnergy Generation Corp., a subsidiary of FirstEnergy Corp. in 2007.


see also

GMI Retail Management

GMI Retail Management Company is a joint venture of Simon Property Group, Morgan Stanley Real Estate Fund and SZITIC Commercial Property Co,.

Kalen Thornton

Following his professional football career, Thornton spent time in private wealth management for Morgan Stanley Smith Barney until 2009 and now is a student at Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Rescorla

Rick Rescorla (1939-2001), retired British and American soldier, and security chief for Morgan Stanley who died in the 9/11 terrorist attack.

Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts

Richard B. Fisher namesake of the hall, chairman emeritus of Morgan Stanley.

Vikram Pandit

In 2005, after more than two decades with Morgan Stanley, Vikram Pandit decided to leave the firm along with John Havens after being passed over by Philip J. Purcell.

In March 2006, Pandit and John Havens, along with Guru Ramakrishnan (former global head of trading, technology and new products in the equities group at Morgan Stanley), started the hedge fund Old Lane LLC.