The memoirs of a ‘Forrest Gump’ of banking shine light on an era

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During the break, at the Citigroup Council’s meeting, one of the more influential figures of Wall Street, Robert Rubin approached the banking investment banking counselor, Scott Box.

Former US Treasury Secretary Rubin, then CITI executive, said that he knew his father by mistakenly assuming that he was the former President of Harvard University. The origin of the banker’s father was much more humble. The removal of the middle West High School, he supported his family by placing telephone poles. This start, however, did not disturb in the memories of “Scott Bok” about the quadrant career about Wall Street event Surviving Wall Street. Heyth’s fairy tale, tragedy and term Set to be published next week.

He brewed on that run in a hundred million dollars in warehouse and paid (he also went to the Kanchilse Shares from time to time).

Compared to the biggest Wall Street names, Bok may make a B-list of a GRANDEE something that his autobiography genuinely recognizes. Bok told me that he was his professional bow before the dome. Perhaps the most important guy in the room but at least in a few historical moments in the front seat.

While the book was in the work, some issues began to be very appropriate in 2025, including whether the funding accumulated for everyone American, including people. And then, will this era be shot by the presidency of the invading Trump?

I first met BOK 20 years ago when I applied for work in Greenhill & CO, the Merger Counselor Boutique brought Robert Greenil to Robert Greenil in a decade ago. Greenhill has held decades in Morgan Stanley and founded a company in the brand Smith Barney, where he was fired in the mid-1990s and replaced his deputy Jamie Dimon. Greenhill has drafted BOK, then the veteran of his 30s in the late 30s, and then driving transactions, then more and more driving to the start of Greenhill & Co.

The company was brilliant both in New York and London to find that the main leaders liked to work with smaller firms.

When I met the BOK, Greenhill had just gone to public, and a few years later he reached $ 2 billion in market capitalization. It was during the head, coming forward to the extended boom the whole world became as much as the fence funds and the private equity were multiplied. Countless personal lucky ones were shown as stock markets with just a few beads that went on.

The executive team of Greenhill has repeatedly taken money on the sale of subscribers from the table and dividends. Green Greenhill, however, has not been able to do so well. Several huge competitive companies have been formed, and BOK was unable to maintain. Once a more pleasant media attention dried up. Bok has chronicles its various small collisions with journalists, including me. In 2023, the Japanese “Mirugho” acquired Greenhill $ 550 million, he assumed the debt. The purchase price of each share was a very shout of $ 90 in the late 2000s.

Greenhill’s sales and its lessons were scheduled to be Coda in Bok’s book. But events intervened and gave a fist. Box entered the background of the Chair of Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania, the background of the college of protests in Israel on October 7, 2023. On October 7.

BOK offers its first detailed version of these events – well deserved and reflected. He also notes that Framas eventually fights between millionaires and billionaires and billionaires benefactors, as the university has remained a wide range of students, graduates and research.

BOK, as in the ruling class of many, Wall Street, he owes his fortune to wave the wave of money in the United States over the past 40 years. At the end of the mountain run, Bok has humility to accept this success. In the coming years, a number of high flying career and are curious to see which other masters of the universe will be as self-determined.

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