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Frank Quattrone gets the best deals for targets
Frank Quattrone is definitely back.
The controversial investment banker who fought a knock-down drag-out with criminal prosecutors---and won!---has been the banker in the middle of some of hottest deals in the tech industry recently. According to Breakingviews , he's been amazingly successf
Quattrone dazzles as old suit lingers
The return of Frank Quattrone as a deal maker has been nothing short of stupendous. He was driven into ostensible remission for years after the dotcom bubble imploded and after he was targeted by the Justice Department with perjury charges. But after he prevailed legally, he got back to business--
Google's deal for Motorola a bonanza for boutiques
You would have thought that Google's agreement to buy Motorola Mobility Holdings for $12.5 billion--a blockbuster by today's standards--would be great news for the top Wall Street banks. But at the likes of Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley, there isn't a lot of celebrating going on. Instead, it's
Frank Quattrone back on top of Silicon Valley investment banking
He's back. We've said this before about Frank Quattrone, the former larger-than-life investment banker at Credit Suisse First Boston, who was investigated and charged with interfering with a probe of IPO allocation practices.
He took on the government in two trials. One resulted in a hung jury
The return of Frank Quattrone
Frank Quattrone ( Frank Quattrone news), as many of you know, jumped right back into investment banking ( investment banking news) after the government gave up trying to convict him. He started Qatalyst Partners, a firm in San Francisco, to advise small technology companies in March 2008. Si
Frank Quattrone re-conquers Silicon Valley
Since the government gave up its prosecution of Frank Quattrone, he has slowly worked his way back up the food chain in Silicon Valley. Now, as the New York Times makes clear, he's once again on top. The credit crunch has left the top investment banks in poor position to assert themselves in t
Big options courtroom showdown coming
Bruce Karatz is one of only six executives that has been criminally charged with fraudulent options backdating practices. However, more than 70 execs have settled civil charges. The former CEO of KB
Frank Quattrone laments lack of pre-IPO research
Frank Quattrone, who famously beat a long government attempt to convict him of obstruction, is certainly back on the technology industry banking scene. At a recent conference, he lambasted Eliot Spitzer's efforts to separate banking and research, which included rules that apparently make it harder
Quattrone lands a big client
Frank Quattrone, who outlasted prosecutors and lived for a second act in the financial services industry, has landed a big-name client: Google. The New York Times reports that Quattrone is aiding Eric Schmidt, CEO of the search giant, as it formulates a strategy amid the Microsoft-Yahoo derby
Get ready for Quattrone 2.0
Frank Quattrone spent four lonely years fighting the Justice Department, who really threw the book at him. But he prevailed after two trials; seven months ago a judge approved a request that all charges be dropped. The speculation since then has been heavy about what he'll do next. His answer: Qa
