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But Eric Dobkin, among the longest-serving partners at Goldman Sachs, achieved that distinction, as the company announced his retirement on Wednesday.
- 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...
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 become...
May 15, 2014 · 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...
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Apr 11, 2019 · Eric Dobkin. Life at Goldman began for Dobkin in 1967, when he started in the firm’s Philadelphia office. Most of his first 10 years was spent in or around equity sales, before he ended up running the institutional equity business for the whole mid-west region.
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Eric S. Dobkin. 2017-Present. Honorary Director. Before his retirement in March 2016, Eric Dobkin was an advisory director at the Goldman Sachs Group, where he had also served a term as Managing Director.
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.
