Surviving Wall Street

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M&A dealmaker's real-life adventure tale tells the story of a turbulent period on Wall Street Surviving Wall Street: A Tale of Triumph, Tragedy and Timing portrays the dramatic transformation of the investment banking business in recent decades through the tumultuous saga of one firm (Greenhill & Co., a specialist in mergers and acquisitions) and one man (Scott Bok, the longtime CEO of that firm). Written in the style of an adventure tale, this book is also a "coming of age" story for a naive young man who came to Wall Street—as thousands like him do each year—and managed to grab a front-row seat for a period of epic change. Readers will gain an insider's perspective on: A M&A firm's journey from start-up to wildly successful first-of-a-kind IPO and later to a sale to a major global bank Numerous crises that rocked Greenhill and all of Wall Street, including the dot-com crash, global financial crisis and pandemic How the