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Jan 31, 1996

Profile: Guy Wyser-Pratte

The Wall Street Arbitrageur talked about the motivation behind his shareholder initiatives over the last 20 years

New York arbs are assumed to be a steely breed, more concerned with the clinical pursuit of wealth than with high-minded ideology about the way companies should be governed. But for Guy Wyser-Pratte, the urbane and refreshingly irreverent Franco-American who runs the privately-owned Wall Street money management and risk arbitrage firm that bears his own name, these two endeavours are not mutually exclusive. Indeed, Wyser-Pratte claims that his governance activity is all about ensuring that

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Janet Dignan

Janet Dignan is a graduate of Otago University in New Zealand, where she read philosophy. From 1979 to1982 she was head of information at Linklaters, with responsibility for internal and external information resources for its offices in London, Hong...
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