Corporate Partners Was Lazard’s First Institutional Private Equity Fund

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• Corporate Partners was founded within Lazard Frères & Co.
  • Ranked among the world’s six largest private equity businesses at its inception in 1988
• Targeted attractive risk-adjusted returns by specializing in structured minority investments in companies at an inflection point
• Groundbreaking investments, including the defense of technology icon Polaroid from Roy Disney, the creation of a first-generation Bermuda reinsurance company after a catastrophic hurricane, the recapitalization that launched what became US Bank, and the strategic financing of a pillar of today’s media giant Comcast
• Corporate Partners became independent of Lazard in 2009, led by two of its founding partners, Ali Wambold and Jonathan Kagan
• In 2023, Corporate Partners united over twenty Partners into a broad-based, multinational merchant banking partnership, the Corporate Partners Investment Alliance (CPIA)
  • A seamless partnership of successful business and financial leaders
  • Financial institutions where Partners have played leading roles include Lazard, Morgan Stanley, Citi Salomon Brothers, MUFG, Rothschild, Deutsche Bank, Blackstone, Babson, the World Bank, Lloyds and other leading financial institutions in North America, the UK and Europe, and Asia