Article: WR Lazard manages $1 billion bond issue. (for New York City's water agency)

The nation's third-largest black-owned investment banking firm, WR Lazard & Co., recently landed the biggest account in its eight-year history. Along with Smith Barney and PaineWebber, WR Lazard will senior manage the New York City Municipal Water Finance Authority's $1 billion revenue bond issue. The deal, affirming the New York-based firm's position as a major investment banking house, coincidentally came one week after its March reorganization.

In March, WR Lazard established a four-member executive committee to structure the firm to be more competitive in its investment banking, asset management, financial advisory and sales and trading businesses. Along with ...

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