General Investing >> Analyst Interviews >> June 2, 2004
LEonard g. ROSEN is Head of Lehman Brothers' Israel Investment Banking
business and a Managing Director in Lehman Brothers' Global Technology
Investment Banking group. Lehman Brothers has been the predominant
global investment bank in Israel for many years. Since joining Lehman
Brothers in 1994, Mr. Rosen has had responsibility for numerous equity
and fixed income financings and M&A transactions, such as multiple
highly successful convertible debt offerings for Comverse Technology and
for Teva Pharmaceutical. This also includes Israel's largest corporate
financing ever, initial public offerings and/or follow-on equity
offerings for Verint Systems, Research in Motion, Ulticom, Deltathree,
Internet Gold and Tecnomatix, M&A transactions for Comverse Technology,
Teva Pharmaceuticals and Orbotech, high-yield debt transactions for RSL
Comunications and Ormat Industries, and multiple fixed income
transactions for the Government of Israel and the Israel Electric
Corporation. Such transactions include Israel's first-ever investment
grade corporate debt issuance. Prior to joining Lehman Brothers, Mr.
Rosen was an attorney with the law firm of Cravath, Swaine & Moore. He
has a BA degree and a JD degree from Columbia University. Profile
Israeli market.
Mr. Rosen: Lehman Brothers is by far the dominant global investment bank
in Israel. We were the first to
