General Investing >> Analyst Interviews >> March 4, 2004
LAWRENCE GOLUB is president of Golub Associates Incorporated, a private
investment firm that makes subordinated debt, last-out senior debt and
equity investments in middle market companies. The firm maintains
offices in Atlanta, Chicago and New York. Golub Associates was named
'Financing Firm of the Year" in 2003 by The Mergers & Acquisitions
Advisor for its work as a flexible and reliable provider of junior
capital. Before founding the firm in 1994, Mr. Golub spent 10 years as a
principal investor and investment banker. As a Managing Director of the
Risk Merchant Bank at Bankers Trust Company, he applied derivative
products to principal investing and merger and acquisitions
transactions. As a Managing Director of Wasserstein Perella & Co.,
Inc., he established the firm's capital markets group and debt
restructuring practice. As an officer of Allen & Company Incorporated,
he engaged in principal investing, mergers and acquisitions advisory
engagements and corporate finance transactions. Mr. Golub's
transactions include over $5 billion in debt and equity financings and
more than 300 mergers, acquisitions and restructurings. Mr. Golub, a
former White House Fellow, is also active in charitable and civic
organizations. He is a trustee of Montefiore Medical Center, the
university hospital of the Albert Einstein Medical School. He is also
Treasurer of the White House Fellows Foundation, President of the
Harvard JD-MBA Alumni Association and a trustee of Horace Mann School.
He is the former chairman of Mosholu Preservation Corporation, a
developer and manager of low income housing in the Bronx. Mr. Golub
earned his AB degree in Economics from Harvard College. He received an
MBA from Harvard Business School, where he was selected as a Baker
Scholar, and a JD from Harvard Law School, where he served as an editor
of the Harvard Law Review. sector - general investing Profile
TWST: Can we start with a quick overview of Golub Associates?Mr. Golub: Golub Associates is a 10-year-old private investment firm. We
provide last-out senior debt, traditional subordinated