Last year, Wasserstein also lured William Lewis William Lewis from Morgan Stanley to be co-head of investment banking.
The state has hired Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein, the US investment bank, to value Yugansk.
The problem is that Mr Wasserstein's contract does not expire until the end of 2006.
Perella and Wasserstein were stars at First Boston before breaking ranks and setting up their own firm in 1988.
If Perella were to join Lazard, it would mark his reunion with Wasserstein after more than ten years apart.
Having stock will allow Wasserstein to offer lucrative pay incentives to bankers he is trying to poach from other firms.
Lazard's Bruce Wasserstein rang the opening bell on his debut day and did a lap around the trading floor.
Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein, as the investment bank is now called, has an enviable client list, which Allianz might covet.
Indeed, according to Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein, corporate America is already living with deflation.
"Wasserstein has never struck me as someone with expense discipline, " says Hintz, who worked with the dealmaker in the past.
"Give it another six months, " says Stephen Dube, director of technology research for investment banker Wasserstein Perella in New York.
After a yearlong, very public battle, Wasserstein got approval last fall from the nonworking partners, or capitalists, to take Lazard public.
Wasserstein has done a good job recruiting big rainmakers, including associates from his former days at First Boston in the 1980s.
More shocking was that David-Weill gave Wasserstein free reign over the family firm, with nothing but a veto to block the IPO.
But the latest ructions seem to be about shareholders trying to boost the value of their stake after Mr Wasserstein's spending spree.
As Mr Wasserstein points out, the significance of Jerusalem waxes and wanes.
Previously, the attraction at Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein was a skewed bonus system that rewarded deal revenue rather than the actual return to shareholders.
Lazard chief Bruce Wasserstein Bruce Wasserstein has been eagerly recruiting the stars of rival Wall Street firms for several years as he builds an advisory practice.
Wasserstein has promised to knock that payroll payout down to 57.5% of revenue, but that would still be far above other Wall Street firms.
"It's not a question of will Samsung become No. 2 but when, " says Per Lindberg, a telecom analyst for Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein in London.
After a firestorm, the partners agreed to the IPO last fall, but they told Wasserstein he had this year to finish it or get out.
The highly anticipated IPO by dealmaker Bruce Wasserstein ends a more than 150-year partnership--what many say was the last of its kind in finance.
"Media modernization" is what Bruce Wasserstein calls the transformation of ALM.
Of course, people asked the same sorts of questions in 2009 when Bruce Wasserstein, financier and owner of New York magazine, died at 61.
Wasserstein Perella made lots of money in junk bonds in 1991.
Will some of them, including its co-founder, Bruce Wasserstein, walk out?
Perella left Wasserstein Perella in 1993 to join Morgan Stanley.
Enel's ratio of 800 customers per employee compares poorly to, say, Spain's utility average of 2, 000, says Chris Rowland of Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein, an investment bank.
The Russian government recently hired investment bank Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein to value the natural gas operations of Yukos with an eye toward putting them up for auction.
On the one hand, the brash Wasserstein enlivened the firm, bringing with him a number of heavy-hitting bankers with whom he had been associated over the years.
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