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Article: Brenda White--a remembrance.(People)(Biography)
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- Mortgage Banking
- Article date:
- August 1, 2009
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Petite, modest, devoted mother, loving wife--not your typical description of a leading Wall Street investment banker who helped shape an industry. But that was Brenda B. White, an investment banker who basically wrote the book on mortgage industry initial public offerings (IPOs) and mergers and acquisitions (M&As) during the heyday of Salomon Brothers and, later, UBS. Brenda passed away in June, and is survived by her husband, Tim; daughter, Adrienne; and stepdaughter, Sarah.
The career-long list of deals she orchestrated reads like a Cliffs Notes version of the modern mortgage banking business. She was smart, articulate, a natural leader, a perfectionist--and ...