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March 2, 2016. Few spend 49 years working for the same company. And fewer still do so at an investment bank. But Eric Dobkin, among the longest-serving partners at Goldman Sachs, achieved that...
- Alibaba
- Charter Communications
- Hilton Worldwide
- Tognum
- Apollo Global Management
Goldman served as joint bookrunner with a few other banks in September 2014 to help the Chinese ecommerce giant raise $25 billion in the largest IPO on record. The group of bankers pushed the total up from an original $21.8 billion by exercising options to purchase additional shares. The company’s investors at the time included buyout shops Silver ...
Goldman Sachs served as global coordinator and sole bookrunner to help Charter Communications raise $3.7 billion at the peak of the dot-com bubble in November 1999. The company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2009 and was subsequently recapitalized by Apollo, Oaktree and others. Following a secondary transaction in 2013, Charter currently looks ...
Blackstone turned to Goldman in 2013 to raise capital for Hilton after paying $26.7 billion to acquire the hotel chain alongside Argosy Partners in a 2007 LBO. The IPO raised $2.71 billion at a $19.7 billion initial market cap, allowing Blackstone to pay down a term loan. The firm retains a substantial investment in the company even after several s...
Swedish PE investor EQT exited portfolio company Tognum though an IPO on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange in July 2007; the offering raised just over €2 billion, making it one of the largest IPOs in Germany. Goldman Sachs served as global coordinator and bookrunner jointly with Deutsche Bank. EQT had created the company by acquiring several divisions f...
Apollo was forced to wait until after the financial crisis to join peers Blackstone and Fortress in the elite group of publicly traded PE firms. Goldman underwrote 32.5% of the $565.4 million offering in March 2011. Shares of opaque PE firms have faltered in public markets; Apollo, Carlyle, KKR and Fortress all announced aggressive buybacks in thei...
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Mar 2, 2016 · Eric Dobkin, who spent 49 years at Goldman Sachs Group Inc., will retire after spearheading some of the world’s biggest initial public offerings, including the bank’s own. Dobkin, 73, will...
Meet the Father of the Modern IPO. Eric Dobkin turned to institutional investors to boost sales. Eric Dobkin, a Goldman Sachs advisory director and chairman emeritus of the bank’s global...
Mar 7, 2016 · March 7, 2016. Goldman Sachs has announced the retirement of one of the firm’s longest-tenured employees, partner Eric Dobkin. Hired in 1967, Dobkin founded Goldman's Equity Capital Markets division in 1985, forever changing the IPO by pitching offerings to institutional rather than retail investors. He first made a name for himself at the ...
Apr 11, 2019 · April 11, 2019. As part of Euromoney's 50th anniversary coverage, we profile some of the biggest names that we interviewed for our April capital markets focus. To hear Eric Dobkin talk about Goldman Sachs, you would assume he was heading in to work at 200 West Street before the markets open tomorrow morning.
Former Goldman Sachs banker Eric Dobkin’s false advertising claims against his longtime insurance broker HUB International Limited were met with skepticism Tuesday by a panel of New York judges, who seemed to disagree that HUB violated the law.
