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Shearson went on to acquire Lehman Brothers Inc. in 1984 and EF Hutton in 1988. During Cohen's career at Shearson, the firm made 24 acquisitions. In 1988, Cohen was a key player in the leveraged buyout of RJR Nabisco. Cohen and Shearson Lehman supported the company's CEO F. Ross Johnson in a proposed $17 billion buyout.
Shearson Lehman Hutton was the result of the combination of several Wall Street firms over a 25-year period beginning in the early 1960s that included Lehman Brothers, Kuhn Loeb, E.F. Hutton, Hayden Stone & Co., Shearson, Hammill & Co., Loeb, Rhoades & Co., Hornblower & Company, and Cogan, Berlind, Weill & Levitt, which ultimately came together under the ownership of American Express.
In 1970, Peter A. Cohen joined CBWL-Hayden Stone and in 1973, Cohen became special assistant to Weill. Cohen would go on to serve as Chairman and CEO of the firm's successor, Shearson Lehman Brothers in the 1980s. [13] [14] Today, Cohen serves as Chairman and CEO of Cowen Group, formerly known as Cowen & Company. [15]
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From 1983 to 1990, Peter A. Cohen was CEO and chairman of Shearson Lehman Brothers, [51] where he led the $1 billion purchase of E.F. Hutton to form Shearson Lehman Hutton. [ 52 ] [ 53 ] In 1989, Shearson backed F. Ross Johnson 's management team in its attempted management buyout of RJR Nabisco , but were ultimately outbid by private equity ...
Peter Cohen or Peter Cohn may refer to: Peter A. Cohen, former chairman and CEO of Shearson Lehman Brothers and current chairman and CEO of Cowen Group; Peter-Adrian Cohen, American writer; Peter Cohen (director), Swedish film director, writer, editor and producer; Peter Cohn (director), American film director, writer, and producer
For more than 30 years, Peter Cohen has been rescuing and fostering cats in his Santa Barbara home. Dubbed the "House of Nekko," which is Japanese for "House of Cats," Cohen's home is fully ...
Weill was succeeded by his protégé, Peter A. Cohen, who became the youngest head of a Wall Street firm. [11] ... In 1993, he reacquired his old Shearson brokerage ...