Felix Rohatyn
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Felix George Rohatyn May 29, 1928 Vienna, Austria |
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Upper East Side New York, New York Southampton, New York |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | B.S. in physics Middlebury College, 1949 |
| Occupation | investment banker |
| Employer | Lazard Frères |
| Known for | Oversaw New York City's 1975 financial restructuring as head of Municipal Assistance Corporation |
| Political party | Democrat |
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| Spouse(s) | Jeannette Streit (div. 1979) Elizabeth Fly Vagliano Rohatyn |
| Children | Nicolas Streit Rohatyn (born c. 1960) Pierre Streit Rohatyn Michael Streit Rohatyn |
| Parent(s) | Edith Knoll Rohatyn Alexander Rohatyn |
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Felix George Rohatyn (/ˈroʊɑːtɪn/ ROH-ah-tin; born May 29, 1928) is an American investment banker. He has spent most of his career with Lazard, where he brokered numerous large corporate mergers and acquisitions from the 1960s through the 1990s. In 1975, he played a central role in preventing the bankruptcy of New York City as chairman of the Municipal Assistance Corp. (MAC) and chief negotiator between the city, its labor unions and its creditors.
He later became an outspoken advocate for rebuilding America’s infrastructure, working with Congressmen and U.S. business leaders to craft guiding principles for strengthening U.S. infrastructure as co-chair of the Commission on Public Infrastructure. Rohatyn has been involved in efforts to form a national infrastructure bank, and assisted in the rebuilding of New York following Superstorm Sandy as co-chair of the New York State 2100 Commission.
Between 1997 and 2000 he served as United States Ambassador to France. He was a long-term advisor to the U.S. Democratic Party.
Rohatyn was born in Vienna in 1928, the only son of Alexander Rohatyn, a Polish Jew, and Edith (Knoll) Rohatyn, a native of Austria. His great grandfather was grand rabbi of Poland. His father managed breweries controlled by the family in Vienna, Romania, and Yugoslavia. The family left Austria in 1935 for France. After the German invasion of France in 1940, they fled to Casablanca, Lisbon, and in 1941, Rio de Janeiro, before arriving in the United States in 1942. Luiz Martins de Souza Dantas, the Brazilian ambassador to France, provided visas that enabled them to escape France and the Holocaust by sailing from Marseille to Casablanca.
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