Douglas Beman, 30, of Greenburgh, was thinking of Sandy and the long gas lines that followed it as he filled his Tahoe and a 5-gallon gas can at a Mobil station.
"It's not just the delivery of improved revenue and profits in a market as difficult as this one, " says Matthew Greenburgh, the co-head of Merrill Lynch's Global Financial Institutions Group and RBS' investment banker.