Wall Street The Dealers Return

Those blockbuster buyouts of the giddy '80s may be history, but investment bankers are rebuilding business on safer ground

Who said Wall Street's dealmakers have gone the way of the extravagant 1980s takeover wars? Wall Street giants First Boston and Morgan Stanley stand to rake in $10 million apiece for helping put together BankAmerica's $4.4 billion merger with Security Pacific. Rothschild Inc. earned $2.5 million in cash and bonds for representing creditors in the bankruptcy of Donald Trump's Taj Mahal casino in Atlantic City. And Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette received $2.5 million last month for co-managing a $200 million junk-bond issue for Dr Pepper. Little by little, deal by deal, Wall Street's investment bankers are rebuilding a business that all...

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