Olivier Sarkozy

Olivier Sarkozy is a French-American businessman and the half-brother of French President Nicolas Sarkozy.

Early life

Olivier Sarkozy was born to Pal Sarkozy de Nagy-Bocsa and Christine de Ganay. His father was previously married to Andrée Mallah and had three children with her, including Nicolas and Guillaume, whom Sarkozy met with weekly during his early childhood. Christine de Ganay divorced and then married Frank G. Wisner, an American diplomat, when Sarkozy was only 7 years of age. He spent the rest of his childhood and adolescence outside of France, living in Zambia, Egypt, and British boarding school, though Sarkozy still met his half-brothers during the summer months. Sarkozy later studied at the University of St Andrews, where he earned an M.A. in medieval history.^[1]

Career

In 1990 Sarkozy was hired to work at the American investment bank Dillon, Read & Co. and left three years later to join First Boston Corporation, where he held several senior posts.^[2] In 2002 he was hired by UBS, where he advised on many billion dollar acquisitions.^[1] On March 3, 2008 Sarkozy was appointed to be the Co-head and Managing Director of the Carlyle Group's Global Financial Services Group.^[2]

Oliver Sarkozy is a Managing Director and head of the Global Financial Services group. He is based in New York.

Prior to joining Carlyle, Mr. Sarkozy was Global Co-Head of the Financial Institutions Group at UBS Investment Bank. He joined UBS in January of 2003, after spending 11 years at Credit Suisse First Boston, where he was a Managing Director in the Financial Institutions Group. While at UBS, he worked on many of the largest mergers in the U.S. financial industry, including advising Sallie Mae in its attempted $25 billion take-private transactional and subsequent recapitalization, ABN Amro on its $21 billion sale of LaSalle Bank to Bank of America, Mellon on its $17 billion merger of equals with the Bank of New York, Charles Schwab on its sale of U.S. Trust to Bank of America, MBNA on its $36 billion sale to Bank of America, Wachovia in its $14 billion acquisition of Southtrust, National Commerce in its $7 billion sale to Suntrust, and Regions Financial in its $6 billion merger of equals with Union Planters. While at CSFB, Mr. Sarkozy advised Wachovia in its merger of equals with First Union and concurrent defense against a competing hostile proposal from Suntrust, Dime Bancorp in its merger with Washington Mutual, Corestakes Financial it its sale to First Union, Wells Fargo in its merger with Norwest ,and Wells Fargo in its successful hostile acquisition of First Interstate, amongst others.

In addition, Mr. Sarkozy was responsible for a number of important equity capital raising transactions, including CIBC $2.9 billion recapitalization and Sallie Mae in its $3.0 billion recapitalization. He also acted as lead advisor in a number of other notable transactions, including Dime Bancorp's private placement of preferred and other equity securities to Warburg Pincus, as part of their successful defense against a hostile tender offer from North Fork to the recapitalization of Glendale Federal Bank, representing the then largest recapitalization in history.

Mr. Sarkozy received his masters in medieval history (with honors) from St. Andrews University in Scotland.

Mr. Sarkozy is a member of the Board of Directors of BankUnited.

Personal life

Sarkozy is married to Charlotte and they have two children; their marriage was conducted by Nicolas Sarkozy in the 1990s while he was still mayor of Neuilly-sur-Seine. Charlotte grew up in Paris and is both a freelance fashion writer and author of children's books.^[3] They live in New York and have a house in Paris.^[1] Sarkozy speaks English with an American accent and goes by Oliver instead of Olivier.^[1]

References

1. ^ ^{a b c d} Olson, Parmy (2007-05-09). "The Other Sarkozy: Big Apple Dealmaker". Forbes. http://www.forbes.com/2007/05/09/oliver-sarkozy-ubs-face-markets-cx_po_0507autofacescan03.html. Retrieved 2008-04-19. 
2. ^ ^{a b} "The Carlyle Group Names Olivier Sarkozy Co-head of Global Financial Services Group". The Carlyle Group. 2008-03-03. http://www.carlyle.com/Media%20Room/News%20Archive/2008/item10274.html. Retrieved 2008-04-19. 
3. ^ Grove, Lloyd (2007-11-12). "Expatriate Games". New York. http://nymag.com/news/intelligencer/40677/. Retrieved 2008-04-19. 

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