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Michael Robert Milken (born July 4, 1946) is an American financier. He is known for his role in the development of the market for high-yield bonds ("junk bonds"), [ 2 ] and his conviction and sentence following a guilty plea on felony charges for violating U.S. securities laws. [ 3 ]
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The Predators' Ball: The Inside Story of Drexel Burnham and the Rise of the Junk Bond Raiders, by Wall Street Journal writer Connie Bruck, largely recounts the rise of Michael Milken, his firm Drexel Burnham Lambert, and the leveraged buyout boom they helped to fuel in the 1980s.
First Executive through Fred Carr had a strong association with Mike Milken and the brokerage firm Drexel Burnham Lambert, whereby at the end of 1990 the company-owned high-yield debt, much of it issued through Drexel, with a carrying value of $9 billion. [2]
At Drexel, Black was regarded as "junk bond king" Michael Milken's right-hand man. [11] In 2009, Black contributed $60 million in a settlement with Huntsman Corporation after Apollo was sued for backing out of a merger the previous year. [12]
Milken may refer to: Michael Milken (born 1946), American financier and philanthropist, pleaded guilty in 1990 to U.S. securities law violation and pardoned by President Trump in 2020 Lowell Milken (born 1948), American businessman, philanthropist, brother of Michael
Michael Steven Ovitz (born December 14, 1946) is an American businessman. He was a talent agent who co-founded Creative Artists Agency (CAA) in 1975 and served as its chairman until 1995. Ovitz later served as president of The Walt Disney Company for only 16 months, from October 1995 to January 1997.
He frequently granted executive clemency to his supporters or political allies, [17] [18] or following personal appeals or campaigns in conservative media, [19] as in the cases of Rod Blagojevich, Michael Milken, Joe Arpaio, Dinesh D'Souza, and Clint Lorance, as well as Bernard Kerik. [17]