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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.
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...
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 · 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. But after a tenure of 49 years that only finished in 2016 when he was 73, it’s hardly a surprise.
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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...
Eric S. Dobkin is a former advisory director at Goldman Sachs and a supporter of SAR, a research institution for anthropology and related disciplines. He is also a board member of The Museum of Arts and Design and a sponsor of the Eric and Barbara Dobkin Native Artist Fellowship for Women.
Eric Dobkin Eric is the Chairman of Whistler Capital Partners. Prior to the formation of Whistler Capital Partners, Eric was a Senior Advisor to Starr Investment Holdings.
