ABOUT THIS COMPANY
Small size, big business
In 2006, UBS managing director Blair Effron had dinner with his friend Robert Pruzan, a veteran of Wasserstein Perella. The two men decided to capitalize on the lucrative mergers and acquisitions boom by going in to business together, opening a boutique they dubbed Centerview Partners (the name came from the view at their new office on the 19th floor of Rockefeller Center).
Since Effron and Pruzan’s vision was realized, Centerview has added three more high-powered co-founding partners and brought total headcount up to 80. And even though the market for M&A has slowed down, Centerview has kept up its pace, advising on megadeals like Altria’s $113 billion spin off of Philip Morris and its $62 billion spinoff of Kraft Foods, ConAgra’s $2.8 billion sale of its trading and merchandising business and InBev’s $52 billion acquisition of Anheuser-Busch.
ABOUT THIS COMPANY
Small size, big businessIn 2006, UBS managing director Blair Effron had dinner with his friend Robert Pruzan, a veteran of Wasserstein Perella. The two men decided to capitalize on the lucrative mergers and acquisitions boom by going in to business together, opening a boutique they dubbed Centerview Partners (the name came from the view at their new office on the 19th floor of Rockefeller Center).
Since Effron and Pruzan’s vision was realized, Centerview has added three more high-powered co-founding partners and brought total headcount up to 80. And even though the market for M&A has slowed down, Centerview has kept up its pace, advising on megadeals like Altria’s $113 billion spin off of Philip Morris and its $62 billion spinoff of Kraft Foods, ConAgra’s $2.8 billion sale of its trading and merchandising business and InBev’s $52 billion acquisition of Anheuser-Busch.
