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N M Rothschild & Sons

N M Rothschild & Sons (more commonly known simply as Rothschild) is the investment bank company of the Rothschild family

Rothschild family

The Rothschild family , is an international banking and finance dynasty of Germany Jewish origin that established operations across Europe, and was ennobled by the Austrian and British governments....
. It was founded in the City of London

City of London

The City of London is a geographically small city status in the United Kingdom within Greater London, England. It is the historic core of London around which, along with Westminster, the modern conurbation grew....
in 1811, and is now a global firm with over 40 offices around the world. The firm acts as a financial advisor to some of the most important companies, largest governments, and wealthiest families in the world.

History
In the late 18th century and early 19th century, Mayer Amschel Rothschild rose to become one of Europe's most powerful bankers in the principality of Hesse-Kassel

Hesse-Kassel

The Landgraviate of Hessen-Kassel or Hesse-Cassel was a Reichsfrei principality of the Holy Roman Empire that came into existence when the Landgraviate of Hesse was divided in 1567 upon the death of Philip I, Landgrave of Hesse....
(Hesse-Cassel) in the Holy Roman Empire

Holy Roman Empire

The Holy Roman Empire was a union of territories in Central Europe during the Middle Ages and the Early modern Europe under a Holy Roman Emperor....
.

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N M Rothschild & Sons (more commonly known simply as Rothschild) is the investment bank company of the Rothschild family

Rothschild family

City of London

History

In the late 18th century and early 19th century, Mayer Amschel Rothschild rose to become one of Europe's most powerful bankers in the principality of Hesse-Kassel

Hesse-Kassel

Holy Roman Empire

The Holy Roman Empire was a union of territories in Central Europe during the Middle Ages and the Early modern Europe under a Holy Roman Emperor....
. In pursuit of expansion, he appointed his sons to start banking operations in the various capitals of Europe, including sending his third son, Nathan Mayer Rothschild, to England

England

Manchester

Manchester is a city and metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, England. Manchester was granted City status in the United Kingdom in 1853....
, where he established a business in finance and textile trading. He later moved to London, where he founded N M Rothschild & Sons in 1811, through which he made a fortune with his involvement in the government bonds market.

According to notable historian and professor at Harvard University

Harvard University

Harvard University is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, United States, and a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1636 by the colonial Massachusetts legislature, Harvard is the Colonial Colleges institution of higher learning in the United States....
Niall Ferguson

Niall Ferguson

Niall Ferguson is a British historian. He specialises in financial and economic history as well as the history of empire. He is the Laurence Tisch Professor of History at Harvard University and the William Ziegler Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School....
, "For most of the nineteenth century, N M Rothschild was part of the biggest bank in the world which dominated the international bond market. For a contemporary equivalent, one has to imagine a merger between Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, J P Morgan and probably Goldman Sachs too — as well, perhaps, as the International Monetary Fund, given the nineteen-century Rothschild's role in stabilising the finances of numerous governments."

Early 19th century

During the early part of the 19th century, the Rothschild's London bank took a leading part in managing and financing the subsidies that the British government transferred to its allies during the Napoleonic Wars

Napoleonic Wars

The Napoleonic Wars were a series of conflicts involving Napoleon I of France First French Empire and changing sets of European allies and opposing coalitions that ran from 1803 to 1815....
. Through the creation of a network of agents, couriers and shippers, the bank was able to provide funds to the armies of the Duke of Wellington

Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington

Field Marshal Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, Order of the Garter, Order of St Patrick, Order of the Bath, Royal Guelphic Order, Privy Council of the United Kingdom, Royal Society , was an Anglo-Irish soldier and statesman, and one of the leading military and political figures of the nineteenth century....
in Portugal

Portugal

Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic , is a country on the Iberian Peninsula. Located in southwestern Europe, Portugal is the westernmost country of mainland Europe and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the west and south and by Spain to the north and east....
and Spain

Spain

Spain or the Kingdom of Spain , is a country located in Southern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula.The Spanish constitution does not establish any official denomination of the country, even though Espa?a , Estado espa?ol and Naci?n espa?ola are used interchangeably....
. In 1818 the Rothschild bank arranged a £5 million loan to the Prussia

Prussia

Prussia was, most recently, a historic state originating out of the Duchy of Prussia and the Margraviate of Brandenburg. This state had for centuries substantial influence on Germany and European history....
n government and the issuing of bonds

Bond (finance)

In finance, a bond is a debt security , in which the authorized issuer owes the holders a debt and, depending on the terms of the bond, is obliged to pay interest and/or to repay the principal at a later date, termed Maturity ....
for government loan

Loan

A loan is a type of debt. This article focuses exclusively on monetary loans, although, in practice, any material object might be lent. Like all debt instruments, a loan entails the redistribution of financial assets over time, between the wiktionary:lender and the wiktionary:borrower....
s. The providing of other innovative and complex financing for government projects formed a mainstay of the bank's business for the better part of the century. N M Rothschild & Sons financial strength in the City of London

City of London

Bank of England

The Bank of England is the central bank of the United Kingdom and is the model on which most modern, large central banks have been based. Since 1946 it has been a Nationalisation institution....
to enable it to avert a liquidity

Market liquidity

Market liquidity is a business, economics or investment term that refers to an asset's ability to be easily converted through an act of buying or selling without causing a significant movement in the price and with minimum loss of value....
crisis.

Late 19th century

Nathan Mayer's eldest son, Lionel de Rothschild

Lionel de Rothschild

Lionel Nathan de Rothschild was a British politician. The son of Nathan Mayer Rothschild and Hanna Barent Cohen, he was a member of the prominent Rothschild family....
(1808-1879) succeeded him as head of the London branch. Under Lionel the bank financed the British government's 1875 purchase of a controlling interest in the Suez Canal

Suez Canal

The Suez Canal is a canal in Egypt. Opened in November 1869, it allows water transportation between Europe and Asia without navigating around Africa or carrying goods overland between the Mediterranean and the Red Sea....
. Lionel also began to invest in railways as his uncle James had been doing in France. In 1869, Lionel's son, Alfred de Rothschild

Alfred de Rothschild

Alfred Charles de Rothschild was the second son of Lionel de Rothschild and Charlotte von Rothschild of the prominent Mayer Amschel Rothschild family....
(1842-1918), became a director of the Bank of England

List of directors of the Bank of England

This is a list of Bank of England directors:*Robert Clayton *Gustavus Brander*Samuel Beechcroft*Thomas Matthias Weguelin *George Goschen *Christopher Weguelin ...
, a post he held for 20 years. Alfred was one of those who represented the British Government at the 1892 International Monetary Conference

International Monetary Conferences

The International Monetary Conferences were a series of assemblies held in the second half of the 19th Century. They were held with a view to reaching agreement on matters relating to international banking....
in Brussels

Brussels

Brussels , officially the Brussels Capital-Region, is the de facto capital city of the European Union and the largest urban area in Belgium....
.

The Rothschild bank funded Cecil Rhodes in the development of the British South Africa Company

British South Africa Company

The British South Africa Company was established by Cecil Rhodes through the amalgamation of the Central Search Association and the Exploring Company Ltd., receiving a Royal Charter in 1889....
and Leopold de Rothschild

Leopold de Rothschild

Leopold de Rothschild Royal Victorian Order was a United Kingdom banker, thoroughbred race horse breeder, and a member of the prominent Rothschild banking family of England....
(1845-1917) administered Rhodes's estate after his death in 1902 and helped to set up the Rhodes Scholarship

Rhodes Scholarship

The Rhodes Scholarship named after Cecil Rhodes is an international award for study at the University of Oxford and was the first large-scale programme of international scholarships....
scheme at Oxford University. In 1873 de Rothschild Frères in France and N M Rothschild & Sons of London

London

London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
joined with other investors to acquire the Spanish government's money-losing Rio Tinto

Rio Tinto Group

Rio Tinto is a multinational mining and resources group founded originally in 1873. It is the third-largest coal mining company in the world as of late 2008....
copper mines. The new owners restructured the company and turned it into a profitable business. By 1905, the Rothschild interest in Rio Tinto amounted to more than 30 percent. In 1887, the French and English Rothschild banking houses loaned money to, and invested in, the De Beers

De Beers

De Beers and the various companies within the De Beers Family of Companies engage in exploration for diamond , diamond mining, diamond trading and industrial diamond manufacture....
diamond mines in South Africa

South Africa

The Republic of South Africa, also known by Official names of South Africa, is a country located at the southern tip of the continent of Africa....
, becoming its largest shareholders.

20th and 21st centuries

The First World War marked a change of fortune and emphasis for Rothschild. After the War, the Rothschild banks began a steady transition towards advisory work and finance raising for commercial concerns, including the London Underground

London Underground

The London Underground is a metro system serving a large part of Greater London and neighbouring areas of Essex, Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire in the UK....
. In 1938, the Austrian Rothschilds’ interests were seized by the Nazis, bringing to an end more than a century at the heart of Central European banking. In France

France

France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
and Austria

Austria

Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It borders both Germany and the Czech Republic to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the west....
, the family was scattered for the duration of the Second World War. After the war, the British and French banks committed themselves to further developing their new operation in the United States

United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
, which was eventually to become Rothschild Inc, and increased focus on mergers and acquisitions

Mergers and acquisitions

The phrase mergers and acquisitions refers to the aspect of corporate strategy, corporate finance and management dealing with the buying, selling and combining of different corporation that can aid, finance, or help a growing company in a given industry grow rapidly without having to create another business entity....
and asset management.

In the twentieth century, Rothschild developed into a preeminent global organisation, which enhanced its ability to secure key advisory roles in some of the most important, complex and recognizable mergers and acquisitions. In the 1980s, Rothschild took a leading role in the international phenomenon of privatisation, where the company was involved from the beginning and developed a pioneering role which spread out to over 30 countries worldwide. In recent years, Rothschild advised on nearly 1,000 completed mergers and acquisitions, having a cumulative value in excess of $1 trillion. Next to this, Rothschild also advised on some of the largest and most high-profile corporate restructurings around the world.

Operations

Overview

Rothschild is consistently in the top 10 global investment banks for M&A advisory. According to Thomson Financial

Thomson Financial

Thomson Financial was an arm of The Thomson Corporation, formerly one of the world's leading information companies, focused on providing integrated information solutions to business and professional customers....
data, in 2007 Rothschild announced 390 deals worth a total of $566bn, giving it 12.6% market share

Market share

Market share, in strategic management and marketing, is the percentage or proportion of the total available market or market segment that is being serviced by a company....
. The firm is particularly strong in Europe, especially in the UK, France, Germany, Italy, and the Benelux

Benelux

The Benelux is an union in Western Europe that comprises three neighboring countries, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg , which lie in the north western European region between France and Germany....
countries, in each of which Rothschild consistently holds a top league table

Thomson Financial League Tables

Thomson Financial's standard league tables are rankings of Investment Banks in terms of the dollar volume of deals they work on. New standard league table sessions in compliance with 2004 league table criteria for Debt, Stock, Syndicated loan, Project Finance and M&A are currently available....
position. Rothschild's strength also extends to Eastern Europe, Asia, and Latin America. The main anomaly is in North America, where the firm leads the market in restructuring

Restructuring

Restructuring is the corporate management term for the act of partially dismantling or otherwise reorganizing a company for the purpose of making it more profitable....
, but has made few inroads in M&A advisory.

The firm competes against a wide range of investment banks, from conglomerates like Goldman Sachs

Goldman Sachs

The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., or simply Goldman Sachs , is a bank holding company that engages in investment banking, Security services, and investment management....
and JPMorgan, to other M&A specialists like Lazard

Lazard

Lazard Ltd is the parent company of Lazard Group LLC, a global, independent and one of the world's largest investment banks with approximately 2,400 employees in 40 cities across 24 countries throughout Europe, North America, Asia, Australia, Central and South America....
and Greenhill & Co.

Greenhill & Co.

Greenhill & Co., Inc. is an independent investment bank that advises on mergers and acquisitions, restructuring, and related transactions. Greenhill has subsidiaries that specialize in broker-dealer services, venture capital, and private equity....
. For comparison, Lazard is slightly smaller, and in 2007 announced 263 deals worth a total of $529bn; and Greenhill is about half the size, announcing 34 deals worth a total of $239bn.

Divisions

Rothschild operates through three divisions:

Investment banking
Corporate banking
Private banking and trust

Next to these three main divisions, Rothschild is also active in real estate, venture capital, and asset management.

Corporate structure

In the twentieth century, the London banking house continued under the management of Lionel Nathan de Rothschild

Lionel Nathan de Rothschild

Lionel Nathan de Rothschild was an England banker and Conservative Party politician best remembered as the creator of Exbury Gardens. He was the eldest of the three sons of Leopold de Rothschild and Marie Perugia and a part of the prominent Rothschild banking family of England....
(1882-1942) and his brother Anthony Gustav de Rothschild

Anthony Gustav de Rothschild

Anthony Gustav de Rothschild was a United Kingdom banker. Born in London, England, he was the third and youngest of the three sons of Leopold de Rothschild and Marie Perugia ....
(1887-1961) and then to Sir Evelyn de Rothschild (b.1931). In 1970, the firm converted from a partnership to a limited liability company. In 2003, following Sir Evelyn's retirement as head of N M Rothschild & Sons of London

London

London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
, the English and French financial firms merged under the leadership of Baron David de Rothschild

David René de Rothschild

David Ren? James de Rothschild is a banker and a member of the prominent Rothschild banking family of France. He is the son of Guy de Rothschild and his first wife and distant cousin, the former Baroness Alix Hermine Jeannette Schey de Koromla ....
. All Rothschild offices around the world therefore now operate as one firm.

The Rothschild group went through a major restructuring the early twenty-first century. N M Rothschild & Sons is now the operating company in the UK. It is indirectly controlled by the main Rothschild holding company, Rothschild Continuation Holdings AG, registered in Zug

Zug

Zug is the capital of the canton of Zug in Switzerland.Zug is a small town at the northeastern corner of the Lake Zug and at the foot of the Zugerberg , which rises gradually, its lower slopes thickly covered with fruit trees....
, Switzerland. 72.5% of Rothschild Continuation Holdings is controlled by the Dutch-registered Concordia BV. Concordia is wholly controlled by the English and French Rothschilds. Until 2008, the only non-family interest was Jardine Matheson, a hong

The Hongs

The Hongs were major business houses in Hong Kong with significant influence on patterns of consumerism, trade, manufacturing and other key areas of the economy....
which holds the other 20% of Rothschild Continuation Holdings. The stake was acquired in 2005 from Royal & Sun Alliance through the Jardine Strategic subsidiary, which specializes in leveraging stakes to protect family owners. Jardines acted as Rothschilds' China agent from 1838 onwards. However, on 19 November 2008, Rabobank

Rabobank

Rabobank is a Netherlands cooperative banking institution with offices all over the world, although primarily in the Netherlands....
announced it intended to acquire 7.5% of Rothschild Continuation Holdings, ostensibly to cement an alliance in food and agricultural finance. FT Alphaville claimed that the move was intended to help Rothschild gain access to a wider capital pool, and enlarge its presence in East Asian markets.

Offices

Rothschild's headquarters are in the City of London

City of London

London

London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
. The firm is now a global investment bank with over 40 offices around the world.

New Court headquarters

Rothschild's headquarters in London have been continuously located at the same site over the past two centuries, at New Court, St. Swithin's Lane. In the 1950s, the firm outgrew its New Court headquarters and took up space in nearby Chetwynd House. Eventually, in October 1962, at the suggestion of Evelyn de Rothschild, the firm demolished New Court and built a 6-story glass-and-steel building on the same site.

In the 1980s and 1990s, Rothschild outgrew its New Court headquarters for a second time, and now operates out of several buildings on St. Swithin's Lane, including 1 King William Street

King William Street (London)

King William Street is the name of a street in the City of London, England. It runs from a junction at the Bank of England, meeting Cheapside, Lombard Street, London and Threadneedle Street, south-east, where it meets a junction with Gracechurch and Cannon Street....
, which was originally the site of the first Gresham Club

Gresham Club

The Gresham Club was a City of London gentlemen's club, founded in 1843 and dissolved in 1991....
. As before, the firm has decided to demolish the New Court and build a taller 15-story glass-and-steel building, again on the same site. This third reincarnation of New Court was designed by Rem Koolhaas

Rem Koolhaas

Remment Lucas Koolhaas, , is a Dutch architect, architectural theory, urbanist and "Professor in Practice of Architecture and Urban Design" at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University, USA....
and will provide 20,992 square metres of office space (with associated plant, servicing and car parking). The new building will open up views of St Stephen Walbrook

St Stephen Walbrook

St Stephen, Walbrook is a small church in the City of London, part of the Church of England's Diocese of London. It is located in Walbrook, next to the Mansion House, and near to Bank and Monument stations....
church from its lobby, and views of the London skyline from a roof-top "sky pavilion". Construction will take place over a 30-month period from March 2008 to August 2010, so the building will be completed shortly after Rothschild celebrates its 200-year anniversary.

Office locations

Amsterdam

Amsterdam is the Capital of the Netherlands and List of cities in the Netherlands with over 100,000 people of the Netherlands, located in the Provinces of the Netherlands of North Holland in the west of the country....

Athens

Athens

Athens , the Capital and largest city of Greece, dominates the Attica periphery; as one of the List of cities by time of continuous habitation, its recorded history spans around 3,400 years....

Auckland

Auckland

The Auckland metropolitan area or Greater Auckland, in the North Island of New Zealand, is the largest and most populous urban areas of New Zealand with over 1.3 million residents, percent of the country's population....

Barcelona

Barcelona

Barcelona is the capital and most populous city of the Autonomous communities of Spain of Catalonia and the second largest city in Spain, with a population of 1,615,908 in 2008, while the population of the Metropolitan Area was 3,161,081....

Beijing

Beijing

is a metropolis in northern China and the Capital of the People's Republic of China. It is one of the four municipality of China, which are equivalent to province in China's Political divisions of China....

Bermuda

Bermuda

Bermuda is a British overseas territory in the Atlantic Ocean. Located off the east coast of the United States, it is situated around 1770 kilometres northeast of Miami, Florida, and 1350 kilometres south of Halifax Regional Municipality, Canada....

Birmingham

Birmingham

Birmingham is a city status in the United Kingdom and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands of England. Birmingham is the most populous of England's English Core Cities Group, and is the List of United Kingdom cities by population British city after London, with a population of 1,010,200 ....

British Virgin Islands

British Virgin Islands

The British Virgin Islands is a British overseas territory, located in the Caribbean to the east of Puerto Rico. The islands make up part of the Virgin Islands, the remaining islands constituting the United States Virgin Islands....

Brussels

Brussels

Brussels , officially the Brussels Capital-Region, is the de facto capital city of the European Union and the largest urban area in Belgium....

Budapest

Budapest

Budapest is the Capitals of Hungary of Hungary. As the largest city of Hungary, it serves as the country's principal political, cultural, commerce, Industry, and transportation center and is considered an important hub in Central Europe....

Cayman Islands

Cayman Islands

The Cayman Islands are a British overseas territory located in the western Caribbean Sea, comprising the islands of Grand Cayman, Cayman Brac, and Little Cayman....

Dubai

Dubai

Dubai is one of the seven Emirates of the United Arab Emirates and the most populous city of the United Arab Emirates . It is located along the southern coast of the Persian Gulf on the Arabian Peninsula....

Frankfurt

Frankfurt

is the largest city in the German States of Germany of Hesse and the List of cities in Germany with more than 100,000 inhabitants in Germany, with a 2008 population of 670,000....

Guernsey

Guernsey

The Bailiwick of Guernsey is a British Isles Crown dependency in the English Channel off the coast of Normandy.As well as the island of Guernsey itself, it also includes Alderney, Sark, Herm, Jethou, Brecqhou, Burhou, Lihou and other islets....

Geneva

Geneva

Geneva is the second-most-populous city in Switzerland and is the most populous city of Romandie . Situated where the Rh?ne River exits Lake Geneva , it is the capital of the Canton of Geneva....

Harare

Harare

Harare is the Capital of Zimbabwe. It has an estimated population of 1,600,000, with 2,800,000 in its metropolitan area . Administratively, Harare is an independent city equivalent to a province....

Hong Kong

Hong Kong

Hong Kong , officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, is a territory located in Southern China in East Asia, bordering the province of Guangdong to the north and facing the South China Sea to the east, west and south....

Israel

Israel

Israel officially the State of Israel , is a country in the Middle East located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area....

Istanbul

Istanbul

Istanbul is the largest city in Turkey, List of metropolitan areas in Europe by population, and List of cities proper by population in the world with a population of 12.6 million....

Jakarta

Jakarta

Jakarta is the Capital and largest city of Indonesia. It also has a List of urban areas by population than any other city in Southeast Asia. It was formerly known as Sunda Kelapa , Jayakarta , Batavia, Dutch East Indies , and Djakarta ....

Johannesburg

Johannesburg

Johannesburg also known as Joburg, is the largest city in South Africa. Johannesburg is the province Capital of Gauteng the wealthiest province in South Africa, having the largest economy of any metropolitan region in Sub-Saharan Africa....

Kuala Lumpur

Kuala Lumpur

Kuala Lumpur , is the largest city of Malaysia. The city proper, making up an area of , has an estimated population of 1.6 million in 2006. Greater Kuala Lumpur, also known as the Klang Valley, is an urban agglomeration of 7.2 million....

Leeds

Leeds

Leeds is located on the River Aire in West Yorkshire, England. It is the urban core and administrative centre of the wider metropolitan borough of the City of Leeds....

Lisbon

Lisbon

Lisbon is the Capital and largest city of Portugal. It is also the seat of the Lisbon and capital of the Lisbon region. Its municipalities of Portugal, which matches the city proper excluding the larger continuous conurbation, has a municipal population of 564,477 in , while the Lisbon Metropolitan Area in total has around 2.8 million inha...

London

London

Madrid

Madrid is the Capital and largest city of Spain. It is the Largest cities of the European Union by population within city limits in the European Union after Greater London and Berlin, and its Madrid metropolitan area is the Largest urban areas of the European Union in the European Union after Paris aire urbaine, Greater London Urban Area, a...

Manchester

Manchester

Manchester is a city and metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, England. Manchester was granted City status in the United Kingdom in 1853....

Manila

Manila

The 'City of Manila' , or simply 'Manila', is the Capital of the Philippines and one of the 17 cities and municipalities that make up Metro Manila....

Melbourne

Melbourne

Melbourne is the more common name for the geographic region and Census in Australia of the Greater Melbourne metropolitan area. It is the second List of cities in Australia by population in Australia, with a population of approximately 3.8 million and serves as the List of Australian capital cities of Victoria ....

Mexico City

Mexico City

Mexico City is the capital city of Mexico. It is the most important economic, industrial, and cultural center in the country; the most populous city with over 8,836,045 inhabitants in 2008....

Milan

Milan

Milan is the second largest city of Italy, located in the plains of Lombardy. It is the capital in the Province of Milan, as well as the Regions of Italy capital of Lombardy....

Montreal

Montreal

Montreal, or Montr?al, is the largest city in the Provinces and territories of Canada of Quebec and the List of largest cities and second largest cities by country List of the 100 largest municipalities in Canada by population....

Moscow

Moscow

Moscow is the capital and the largest types of inhabited localities in Russia of the Russian Federation. It is also the largest European cities and metropolitan areas, with the Moscow metropolitan area ranking among the largest urban areas in the world....

Mumbai

Mumbai

Mumbai— formerly Bombay, is the capital of the Indian state of Maharashtra. The city proper has approximately 14 million people and, along with the neighbouring suburbs of Navi Mumbai and Thane, Mumbai forms the World's largest urban agglomerations according to the United Nations World Urbanization Prospects report with around 19...

New York

New York

The State of New York is a U.S. state in the Mid-Atlantic States and Northeastern United States regions of the United States and is the nation's List of U.S....

Paris

Paris

Paris is the Capital of France and the country's largest city. It is situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the ?le-de-France Regions of France ....

Port Moresby

Port Moresby

||-||-||-||-||-||}Port Moresby , or Pot Mosbi in Tok Pisin, population 255,000 , is the Capital and largest city of Papua New Guinea ....

Rome

Rome

Rome is the capital city of Italy and Lazio, and is Italy's largest and most populous city, with 2,724,347 residents in an urban area of some ....

Santiago

Santiago, Chile

Santiago , is the Capital and largest city of Chile, and the center of its largest conurbation . It is located in the country's central valley, at an elevation of 520 m Above mean sea level....

São Paulo

São Paulo

S?o Paulo is the largest city in Brazil, and along with Tokyo, Seoul and Mexico City is among the four largest metropolitan regions of the world....

Shanghai

Shanghai

Shanghai is the List of cities in the People's Republic of China by population in China and one of the List of metropolitan areas by population in the world, with over 20 million people....

Singapore

Singapore

Singapore , officially the Republic of Singapore, is an island country microstate located at the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula. It lies 137 kilometres north of the equator, south of the Malaysian state of Johor and north of Indonesia's Riau Islands....

Stockholm

Stockholm

is the capital and largest city of Sweden. It is the site of the national Swedish Government of Sweden, the Parliament of Sweden, and the official residence of the Swedish Monarchy of Sweden....

Sydney

Sydney

Sydney is the List of cities in Australia by population in Australia, with a metropolitan area population of approximately 4.34 million . It is the List of Australian capital cities of New South Wales, and was the site of the first British Empire colony in Australia....

Tokyo

Tokyo

, officially , is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan of Japan and located on the eastern side of the main island Honshu. The twenty-three special wards of Tokyo, each governed as a city, cover the area that was once the Tokyo City in the eastern part of the prefecture, and total over 8 million people....

Toronto

Toronto

Toronto is the List of the 100 largest municipalities in Canada by population in Canada and the Provinces and territories of Canada Provincial and territorial capitals of Canada of Ontario....

Warsaw

Warsaw

Warsaw is the Capital and World's largest cities of Poland. It is located on the Vistula River roughly from both the Baltic Sea coast and the Carpathian Mountains....

Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C. , formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, the District, or simply D.C., is the Capital of the United States, founded on July 16, 1790....

Zurich

Awards

Rothschild has received several awards in recognition of its M&A positions in various countries from Acquisitions Monthly

Thomson Financial

Financial Times

The Financial Times is a United Kingdom international business newspaper. It is a morning daily newspaper published in London and is printed at 24 sites....
, Financial News

Financial News

The Financial News, is a financial newspaper and news website published in London. It is a weekly investment banking, fund management and securities industries newspaper, published by eFinancial News Limited....
, and Euromoney. Awards include Rothschild being named as Best UK M&A House, Best European M&A House, and Corporate Finance Advisor of the Year in 2006 as well as M&A Bank of the Year in 2007.

Notable current and former employees

(excluding many notable members of the Rothschild family

Rothschild family

Business

René-Pierre Azria
René-Pierre Azria

Ren?-Pierre Azria is a France businessman. He currently is the founder and CEO of the US advisory firm Tegriss. Previously he was a Global Partner with N M Rothschild & Sons worldwide and headed the Telecom practice of Rothschild in the United States....
- Director of Jarden Corporation; Managing Director of Blackstone
Blackstone

Blackstone refers to various people, places and concepts....
Indosuez
Calyon

Calyon Cr?dit Agricole CIB is Cr?dit Agricole's corporate and investment banking entity. With a staff of 13,000 employees in 58 countries, Calyon is active in a broad range of capital markets, investment banking and financing activities....
Dominic Barton - Chairman of McKinsey & Company
McKinsey & Company

McKinsey & Company is a global management consulting firm that focuses on solving issues of concern to senior management. McKinsey serves as an advisor to the world?s leading businesses, governments, and institutions....
Asia
Asia

Asia is the world's largest and most populous continent. It covers 8.6% of the Earth's total surface area and, with over 4 billion people, it contains more than 60% of the world's current human population....
Franco Bernabè
Franco Bernabè

Franco Bernab? is an italy banker and manager, currently the Chief Executive Officer of Telecom Italia, appointed on December 3, 2007.Bernab? was born at Sterzing....
- CEO of Telecom Italia
Telecom Italia

Telecom Italia is the largest Italy telephone company. Now a private company, it was founded in 1994 by the merger of several state-owned telecommunications companies, the most important of which was Societ? Italiana per L'Esercizio Telefonico p.A. , the monopoly telephone operator in Italy....
; Director of PetroChina
PetroChina

PetroChina Company, Limited is a China oil company and is the listed arm of state-owned China National Petroleum Corporation , mainland China's biggest producer of oil....
Michel de Carvalho - Vice-Chairman of Investment Banking of Citigroup
Citigroup

Citigroup Inc., doing business as Citi, is a major United States financial services company based in New York City. Citigroup was formed from one of the world's largest mergers in history by combining the banking giant Citicorp and financial conglomerate Travelers Group on April 7, 1998....
; Director of Heineken International
José María Castellano
José María Castellano

Jos? Mar?a Castellano, is a Spain businessman, born in A Coru?a, Spain in 1947.Mr. Castellano is the former CEO and Deputy Chairman of the Inditex Group, which is one of the largest fashion groups in the world....
- CEO of Inditex Group
Sir John Collins
John Collins (UK businessman)

Sir John Collins is a United Kingdom business executive and director for several corporations. He was born in Zimbabwe and after attending Campbell College in Belfast, he graduated from the University of Reading in England in 1964 and received an honorary degree from the University of Strathclyde in 1994....
- CEO of Shell
Shell

Shell may refer to* Exoskeleton, or exoskeleton, including those of molluscs, turtles, insects and crustaceans* Seashell, the shells of various marine animals, especially marine mollusks...
UK; Chairman of National Power
National Power

National Power Plc was formerly an energy company based in the United Kingdom....
Alfonso Cortina
Alfonso Cortina

Alfonso Cortina de Alcocer . President, Chairman, and Chief Executive Officer of Repsol YPF, Spain's largest oil and gas group. He graduated in Industrial Engineering and holds a further degree in Economic Sciences....
- Chairman and CEO of Repsol
Douglas Daft
Douglas Daft

Douglas N. Daft Companion of the Order of Australia is an Australian businessman.He graduated from the University of New England, Australia in Armidale, New South Wales, New South Wales in 1968 with a Bachelor of Arts degree, majoring in Mathematics....
- Chairman and CEO of The Coca-Cola Company
The Coca-Cola Company

The Coca-Cola Company is the world's largest beverage company, largest manufacturer, distributor and marketer of non-alcoholic beverage concentrates and syrups in the world and is one of the largest corporations in the United States....
; Director of The McGraw-Hill Companies
Dudley Eustace
Dudley Eustace

Dudley Eustace is an England businessman, having had many executive functions in Netherlands companies. He is well known for his restructuring work being finance director of Philips and Ahold....
- Chairman of The Nielsen Company, Vice-Chairman of Royal Philips Electronics
Pehr G. Gyllenhammar
Pehr G. Gyllenhammar

Pehr Gustaf Gyllenhammar is a Sweden businessman. He is mainly known for his 24 years as CEO and Board of Directors of Volvo, between 1970 and 1994....
- Chairman of Aviva
Aviva

Aviva plc is the world's fifth-largest insurance group, the largest insurance group in the United Kingdom and the second-largest insurance group in Canada....
; Founder of European Round Table of Industrialists
European Round Table of Industrialists

The European Round Table of Industrialists, abbreviated ERT, is an influential interest group in the European Union consisting of some 40 European industrial leaders working to strengthen competitiveness in Europe....
Jay Hambro
Jay Hambro

Jay Hambro is a businessman known for being the chief executive officer of Aricom. Previously Hambro was Director of Business Development at Peter Hambro Mining during Peter Hambro Mining plc?s rapid evolution from junior exploration company to the second largest gold producer in Russia....
- CEO of Aricom
Aricom

Aricom PLC is a London-based iron ore mining company with operations in Russia. Its shares are listed on the London Stock Exchange and it is a former member of the FTSE 250....
Sir Graham Hearne
Sir Graham Hearne

Sir Graham Hearne CBE is an English businessman who was chairman of Enterprise Oil from 1991 until 2002, having joined Enterprise as chief executive in 1984....
- Deputy Chairman of Gallaher Group
Gallaher Group

Gallaher Group is a major United Kingdom based multinational tobacco company. It was traded on the London Stock Exchange and was a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index prior to its April 2007 acquisition by Japan Tobacco....
; Chairman and CEO of Enterprise Oil
Enterprise Oil

Enterprise Oil was a major UK independent exploration and production company based in Europe, with core areas of activity in United Kingdom and Ireland, mainland Europe, Brazil and the Gulf of Mexico....
Sydney Gruson - Vice-Chairman of The New York Times Company
The New York Times Company

The New York Times Company is an United States media company best known as the publisher of its namesake, The New York Times. Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, Jr....
Henry Keswick
Henry Keswick

Henry Neville Lindley Keswick is a Scotland businessman. He was educated at Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge.Henry married Tessa, Lady Reay, younger daughter of the late Simon Fraser, 15th Lord Lovat in 1985....
- Chairman of Jardine Matheson Holdings
Jardine Matheson Holdings

Jardine Matheson Holdings Limited often called Jardines or Jardine's , is a multinational corporation that is incorporated in Bermuda and based in Hong Kong....
; Director of Mandarin Oriental
Mandarin Oriental

The Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group is a hotel chain which is part of Jardine Matheson Holdings Limited and is formally known as Mandarin Oriental International Limited....
Lord Leach of Fairford - Director of Jardine Matheson Holdings
Jardine Matheson Holdings

Jardine Matheson Holdings Limited often called Jardines or Jardine's , is a multinational corporation that is incorporated in Bermuda and based in Hong Kong....
; Chairman of Open Europe
Open Europe

Open Europe is a London based eurosceptic think-tank which was set up by UK business people to 'campaign for reform' in the European Union. While Open Europe does not advocate withdrawal from the EU, it is highly critical of the process of European integration and has called for 'substantial powers' to be 'returned' to EU member states....
Sir Carl Meyer
Carl Meyer

Sir Carl Ferdinand Meyer, 1st Baronet was a British banker and diamond magnate.He was born in Hamburg, Germany, the second son of Siegmund Meyer and Elise Rosa Hahn daughter of Reuben Hahn....
- Deputy Chairman of De Beers
De Beers

De Beers and the various companies within the De Beers Family of Companies engage in exploration for diamond , diamond mining, diamond trading and industrial diamond manufacture....
; Governor of the National Bank of Egypt
National Bank of Egypt

National Bank of Egypt is the oldest and largest bank in Egypt, and has 405 branches within the country, including 131 in Cairo. It has assets of L.E....
Baron Moser - Chairman of British Museum
British Museum

The British Museum is a museum of human history and culture situated in London. Its collections, which number more than 7 million Object , are amongst the largest and most comprehensive in the world and originate from all continents, illustrating and documenting the story of human culture from its beginning to the present....
; Chairman Economist Intelligence Unit
Economist Intelligence Unit

The Economist Intelligence Unit is part of The Economist Group.It is a research and advisory company providing country, industry and management analysis worldwide and incorporates the former Business International Corporation, a U.S....
Paul Myners
Paul Myners

Paul Myners, Baron Myners, Order of the British Empire is Financial Services Secretary in HM Treasury, in Prime Minister Gordon Brown's government....
- Chairman of Guardian Media Group
Guardian Media Group

Guardian Media Group plc is a company of the United Kingdom owning various mass media operations including The Guardian, The Observer and the Manchester Evening News....
; Chairman of Marks & Spencer
Marks & Spencer

Marks & Spencer is a major United Kingdom retailer, with over 840 stores in Marks & Spencer#International stores around the world, over 600 domestic and 285 international....
Robert S. Pirie
Robert S. Pirie

Robert S. Pirie is an United States lawyer.Pirie graduated from Harvard College and Harvard Law School. As an undergraduate he was attracted to bibliographical work in Elizabethan authors and began to collect actively while on service with the United States Army in the late 1950s....
- Senior Managing Director of Bear Stearns & Co.
Gerald Rosenfeld
Gerald Rosenfeld

Gerald Rosenfeld is an United States businessman, academic, and investment banker. He is well known as the former Head of Investment Banking of Lazard and as the CEO of N M Rothschild & Sons North-America....
- Head of Investment Banking of Lazard
Lazard

Lazard Ltd is the parent company of Lazard Group LLC, a global, independent and one of the world's largest investment banks with approximately 2,400 employees in 40 cities across 24 countries throughout Europe, North America, Asia, Australia, Central and South America....
Wilbur Ross
Wilbur Ross

Wilbur L. Ross, Jr. is an United States investor known for restructuring failed companies in industries such as steel, coal, telecommunications, foreign investment and textiles....
- Famous investor and billionaire
Trevor Rowe
Trevor Rowe

Trevor Cyril Rowe Order of Australia is an Australian businessman, and has held numerous executive positions in the public and private sectors. Among his present positions, he is the executive chairman of N M Rothschild & Sons, chairman of the Queensland Investment Corporation , chairman of the United Group , chancellor of Bond University on...
- Director of the Australian Stock Exchange
Australian Stock Exchange

The Australian Securities Exchange is the primary stock exchange in Australia. The ASX began as separate state-based exchanges established as early as 1861....
; Chairman of United Group
United Group

United Group Limited is an engineering and property services company. The company provides construction, maintenance and asset management services to the rail, resources and infrastructures sectors and corporate real estate, facilites management and business process outcoursing services to property users....
Anthony Salz
Anthony Salz

Anthony Salz, a prominent solicitor, sat on the Board of Governors of the BBC and was Acting Chairman in 2006. Salz assumed the position on 1 August 2004 after the resignation of the former Vice Chairman, Richard Ryder, Baron Ryder of Wensum....
- Senior Partner of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP is the fourth largest law firm in the world, by revenue, and a component of the UK's Magic Circle of leading law firms....
; Acting Chairman of Board of Governors of the BBC
Peter Smith
Peter Smith (businessman)

Peter Smith is an England businessman. He currently is the Chairman of Savills, a United Kingdom firm of estate agents. His other non-executive appointments are: N M Rothschild & Sons, The Equitable Life Assurance Society, Templeton Emerging Markets Investment Trust and Associated British Foods....
- Chairman of Coopers & Lybrand; Chairman of Savills
Savills

Savills plc is a United Kingdom-based firm of estate agents, property advisors, planning consultants, and surveyors. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index....
Raymond W. Smith
Raymond W. Smith

Raymond W. Smith is currently the Chairman of N M Rothschild & Sons Continuation Investments, Founding Partner of Arlington Capital Partners, a private equity firm, and Chairman of Verizon Ventures....
- CEO of Bell Atlantic; Chairman of Verizon
Baron Vallance of Tummel - Vice-Chairman of Royal Bank of Scotland
Royal Bank of Scotland

The Royal Bank of Scotland Group is a majority part-nationalised British people banking and insurance holding company in which HM Treasury holds an 74% controlling shareholding, through the UK Financial Investments Limited....
; Chairman of British Telecom

Politics and public service

Thierry Breton
Thierry Breton

Thierry Breton was the France Minister of the Economy, Finance and Industry in the governments of Jean-Pierre Raffarin and then of Dominique de Villepin , Jacques Chirac being the President de la Republique....
- French
France

France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
Minister of Economy, Finance and Industry
Minister of the Economy, Finance and Industry (France)

The Minister for the Economy, Industry and Employment , or Minister of Finance for short, is one of the most prominent positions in the French government ministers of France after the Prime Minister of France....
(2005-2007)
Liam Byrne
Liam Byrne

Liam Dominic Byrne is a United Kingdom Labour Party politician. He is the Member of Parliament for Birmingham Hodge Hill and was the former Minister of State for Borders and Immigration; and Minister for the West Midlands ....
- Minister of State at the Home Office
Home Office

The Home Office is the United Kingdom government department responsible for immigration control, security and order. As such it is responsible for the police, United Kingdom Borders Agency and MI5....
(2006-present); Minister of State at Her Majesty's Treasury
HM Treasury

HM Treasury, in full Her Majesty's Treasury, informally The Treasury, is the United Kingdom government department responsible for developing and executing the British government's public finance policy and economic policy....
(2008-present)
Baron George - Governor of the Bank of England
Governor of the Bank of England

The Governor of the Bank of England is the most senior position in the Bank of England. It is nominally a civil service post, but the appointment tends to be from within the Bank, with the incumbent grooming his or her successor....
(1993-2003)
Baron Lamont of Lerwick - Member of the British Parliament
Member of Parliament

A Member of Parliament, or MP, is a representative of the voters to a parliament. In many countries the term applies specifically to members of the lower house, as upper houses often have a unique title, such as senate, and thus also have unique titles for its members, such as senators....
(1972-1997); Chancellor of the Exchequer
Chancellor of the Exchequer

The Chancellor of the Exchequer is the title held by the British Cabinet of the United Kingdom Minister who is responsible for all economic and financial matters....
(1990-93)
Sir Edwin Leather - Member of the British Parliament
Member of Parliament

A Member of Parliament, or MP, is a representative of the voters to a parliament. In many countries the term applies specifically to members of the lower house, as upper houses often have a unique title, such as senate, and thus also have unique titles for its members, such as senators....
(1950-1964); Governor of Bermuda
Governor of Bermuda

The Governor of Bermuda is the representative of the British monarch in the United Kingdom's British overseas territory of Bermuda. The Governor is appointed by the monarch on the advice of the British government....
(1973-1977)
Oliver Letwin
Oliver Letwin

Oliver Letwin is the United Kingdom Member of Parliament for West Dorset , Chairman of the Policy Review, and Chairman of the Conservative Research Department....
- Member of the British Parliament
Member of Parliament

A Member of Parliament, or MP, is a representative of the voters to a parliament. In many countries the term applies specifically to members of the lower house, as upper houses often have a unique title, such as senate, and thus also have unique titles for its members, such as senators....
(1997-present); Chairman of the Conservative Research Department
Conservative Research Department

The Conservative Research Department is an integral part of the central organisation of the Conservative Party of the United Kingdom. It operates alongside the other departments of Conservative Campaign Headquarters at 30 Millbank, London SW1....
(2005-present)
René Mayer - President of France (1953)
Baron Neuberger of Abbotsbury - Lord of Appeal in Ordinary
Lord of Appeal in Ordinary

Lords of Appeal in Ordinary, or Law Lords, are appointed under the Appellate Jurisdiction Act 1876 to the House of Lords of the United Kingdom in order to exercise its Judicial functions of the House of Lords, which include acting as the highest Appellate court for most domestic matters....
(2007-present)
Georges Pompidou
Georges Pompidou

Georges Jean Raymond Pompidou was a France politician. He was Prime Minister of France from 1962 to 1968, holding the longest tenure in this position, and later President of the French Republic from 1969 until his death in 1974....
- President of France (1969-1974)
John Redwood
John Redwood

John Alan Redwood is a British Conservative Party politician and Member of Parliament for Wokingham . Formerly Secretary of State for Wales in John Major UK cabinet, he challenged Major for the leadership of the Conservative Party in 1995....
- Member of the British Parliament
Member of Parliament

A Member of Parliament, or MP, is a representative of the voters to a parliament. In many countries the term applies specifically to members of the lower house, as upper houses often have a unique title, such as senate, and thus also have unique titles for its members, such as senators....
(1987-present)
Felix Rohatyn
Felix Rohatyn

Felix George Rohatyn is an United States investment banker known for his role in preventing the bankruptcy of New York City in the 1970s, who also served as United States Ambassador to France....
- United States Ambassador to France
United States Ambassador to France

There has been a United States Ambassador to France since the American Revolution. The United States sent its first envoys to France in 1776, towards the end of that country's 400-year rule under the Bourbon dynasty....
(1997-2000)
Gerhard Schröder
Gerhard Schröder

is a Germany politics, and was Chancellor of Germany from 1998 to 2005. A member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany , he led a coalition government of the SPD and the Alliance 90/The Greens....
- Chancellor of Germany (1998-2005)
Sir Clive Whitmore - Permanent Secretary
Permanent Secretary

The Permanent Secretary, in most departments officially titled the Permanent Under-Secretary of State , is the most senior British Civil Service of a Her Majesty's Government Ministry , charged with running the department on a day-to-day basis....
of the Ministry of Defence
Ministry of Defence (United Kingdom)

The Ministry of Defence is the Departments of the United Kingdom Government responsible for implementation of government defence policy and is the headquarters of the British Armed Forces....
(1983-1988)
Baron Wakeham - Leader of the House of Lords
Leader of the House of Lords

Leader of the House of Lords is a function in the Her Majesty's Government that is always held in combination with a formal Cabinet of the United Kingdom position, most often Lord President of the Council, Lord Privy Seal or Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster....
(1992-1994); Leader of the House of Commons
Leader of the House of Commons

The Leader of the House of Commons is a member of the Cabinet of the United Kingdom who is responsible for arranging government business in the United Kingdom House of Commons....
(1987-1989)

Armed forces

General
General

A General officer is an Officer of high military rank. The term or equivalent is used by nearly every country in the world. General can be used as a generic term for all grades of general officer, or it can specifically refer to a single rank that is just called general....
Baron Guthrie of Craigiebank - Chief of the General Staff
Chief of the General Staff

The Chief of the General Staff is a post in many Military, the head of the Staff .See also:*Chief of the General Staff *Chief of the General Staff ...
(1994-1997); Chief of the Defence Staff
Chief of the Defence Staff

The Chief of the Defence Staff can refer to:*Chief of the Defence Staff *Chief of the Defence Staff *Chief of the Defence Staff *Chief of the Defence Staff ...
(1997-2001)

Books

External links

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The Sunday Times

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