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...THE ACCIDENTAL INVESTMENT BANKER This page intentionally left blank THE ACCIDENTAL INVESTMENT BANKER · Inside the Decade That Transformed Wall Street · JONATHAN A. KNEE 1 2006 1 Oxford University Press, Inc., publishes works that further Oxford University’s objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education. Oxford New York Auckland Cape Town Dar es Salaam Hong Kong Karachi Kuala Lumpur Madrid Melbourne Mexico City Nairobi New Delhi Shanghai Taipei Toronto With offices in Argentina Austria Brazil Chile Czech Republic France Greece Guatemala Hungary Italy Japan Poland Portugal Singapore South Korea Switzerland Thailand Turkey Ukraine Vietnam Copyright © 2006 by Jonathan A. Knee Published by Oxford University Press, Inc. 198 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10016 www.oup.com Oxford is a registered trademark of Oxford University Press All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of Oxford University Press. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available ISBN-13: 978-0-19-530792-4 ISBN-10: 0-19-530792-5 1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2 Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper For Chaille Bianca and Vivienne Lael and William Grant who says he wants to be an investment banker ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS As a f i r s t - t i m e au t h o r ...
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