With the IPO, he is wresting control of the 157-year-old firm away from a powerful group of nonworking partners led by Michel David-Weill , a descendant of the founder.

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"Boy Leading a Horse" went to MoMA after the death of William S. Paley in 1990, and the Fifth Avenue apartment is now the Manhattan home of French financier Michel David-Weill.

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Three-quarters of Lazard's revenues are paid back in compensation, a fact that caused much of the initial strife between Wasserstein and Michel David-Weill , scion of the family who founded the firm and the leader of the capitalist group.

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He had been convicted on June 7th of taking part in an attack on a train in southern Cambodia in 1994, and kidnapping and killing three young western backpackers: Jean-Michel Braquet from France, Mark Slater from Britain and David Wilson from Australia.

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The choice of Smith delighted those who had been calling for the successor to Uefa-bound David Taylor to be a "football person", mirroring the appointment of Michel Platini by European football's governing body.

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In addition, and without implying they would necessarily agree with the views expressed here, the author would like to thank: Lajos Bokros, Robert Braun, Martin Bruncko, Robert Cooper, Pavol Demes, Jeremy Druker, Michel Foucher, Andrew Gardner, Heather Grabbe, Charles Grant, Istvan Gyarmati, David Kral, Mart Laar, Edward Lucas, Alina Mungiu-Pippidi, Jiri Pehe, Sandra Pralong, Olli Rehn, Gyorgy Schopflin, James Sherr, Pirkka Tapiola, Emma Udwin and Alexander Vondra.

ECONOMIST: Sources and acknowledgments