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The Predators' Ball

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Overview
Notable people featured
References
Sources

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| name = The Predators' Ball: The Inside Story of Drexel Burnham and the Rise of the Junk Bond Raiders
| translator =
| image = Predatorsball.jpg
| size =
| caption = Softcover edition
| author = Connie Bruck
| country = United States
| language = English
| genre = Non-fiction
| subject = Hostile takeovers, mergers & acquisitions, junk bonds
| publisher = Penguin
| release_date = 1988
| media_type = Print, e-book
| pages = 400
| isbn = 978-0-14-012090-5
}}

The Predators' Ball: The Inside Story of Drexel Burnham and the Rise of the Junk Bond Raiders, by Wall Street Journal writer Connie Bruck, largely recounts the rise of Michael Milken, his firm Drexel Burnham Lambert, and the leveraged buyout boom they helped to fuel in the 1980s.

Overview

As the book was published at the apex of the leveraged buyout boom, it was subsequently updated to also address the impending collapse of Drexel Burnham and Michael Milken's conviction on various securities and reporting violations.

The title of the book is a reference to an event that Drexel Burnham hosted annually.^[1]^[2] Among the participants in the Predator's Ball were an array of private equity investors, corporate raiders such as Ron Perelman and Carl Icahn as well as institutional investors in high-yield bonds and management teams from companies that either had been or would be the targets of leveraged buyouts.

Michael Milken reportedly offered to pay the author for all of the copies of the book that would have been sold in exchange for stopping her work on Predators' Ball.^[2]

Notable people featured

Michael Milken
Herb Allen, head of investment banking firm Allen & Company
Samuel Belzberg, founder and CEO of First City Financial Corporation
Leon Black, Drexel Burnham investment banker and founder of Apollo Management
Ivan Boesky, arbitrageur implicated in the 1980s insider trading scandal
I.W. "Tubby" Burnham, founder of Burnham & Co., later Drexel Burnham Lambert
Fred Carr, head of First Executive Insurance
James Dahl, Drexel Burnham bond salesman
Donald Engel, Managing Director of Drexel Burnham from 1979 to 1984
Theodore J. Forstmann, co-founder of buyout firm Forstmann Little & Co.
Howard Gittis, attorney and advisor to Ronald Perelman
Sir James Goldsmith, investor and corporate raider
Samuel J. Heyman, investor and corporate raider
Carl Icahn, investor and corporate raider
Fred Joseph, CEO of Drexel Burnham Lambert
Henry Kravis, co-founder of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts
Dennis Levine, former Drexel Burnham investment banker
Cy Lewis, managing partner of Bear Stearns
Carl Lindner, Jr., investor and businessman
Lowell Milken, Michael Milken's brother and former Drexel Burnham employee
Nelson Peltz, investor and corporate raider
Ronald Perelman, investor and corporate raider
T. Boone Pickens, investor and corporate raider
Victor Posner, investor and corporate raider
Felix Rohatyn, investment banker
Meshulam Riklis, investor and corporate raider
Martin Siegel, former Kidder Peabody and Drexel Burnham investment banker
Saul Steinberg, investor and corporate raider
Jeffrey Steiner, investor in high yield bonds, responsible for introducing Drexel to European investors
Lawrence Tisch, investor and head of Loews Corporation
Gerald Tsai, investor, responsible for building Primerica
Stephen Wynn, casino and real estate developer

References

1. ^[https://www.nytimes.com/1988/04/18/business/junk-bond-conferees-put-accent-on-quality.html Junk Bond Conferences Put Accent on Quality]. New York Times, April 18, 1988
2. ^¹Stop! In the Name of Money. TIME, Mar. 21, 1988

Sources

[https://www.nytimes.com/1988/07/10/books/no-target-seemed-too-big.html No Target Seemed to Big: The Predators' Ball]. New York Times, July 10, 1988
Throwing the Book at Drexel. TIME, Jun. 24, 2001

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