SoBRO: South Bronx Overall Economic Development Corporation

Please join TLC Beatrice Chairman & CEO Loida Nicolas Lewis and SoBRO at the Official Inauguration of the Reginald F. Lewis Lecture Series On Wealth Creation for Minorities & Women.

Event Details:
When:
Thursday, October 14, 2010

Where:
JCCA Main Auditorium
At the SoBRO Center, 4th Floor
555 Bergen Avenue, Bronx, NY 10455

Registration & Continental breakfast 8:30 am
Inauguration 9:00 am

RSVP:
Linda Yantz at 718-732-7522, lyantz@sobro.org

Suggested donation: $5

The Reginald F. Lewis Lecture Series on Wealth Creation for Minorities and Women leverages the personal beliefs, best practices in stockholder value-creation, tenets in asset-valuation and high ethical standards championed by the late Reginald F. Lewis. An iconic figure in modern American finance, Lewis was the first African American investor to break the then-billion dollar benchmark in mergers and acquisitions through The Lewis Company’s dramatic purchase of Beatrice International – a conglomerate with diverse interests in consumer products on several continents – in 1987. At that time, the deal was the largest offshore leveraged buyout in American history. It remains a case study in how tenacity, creativity and focus can become predictors of personal and corporate success.
Organized by the South Bronx Overall Economic Development Corporation (SoBRO) to help spur asset-building among its constituents, the Reginald F. Lewis Lecture Series is designed to provoke meaningful, multi-sector discourse on:

- Wealth-formation opportunities for underserved markets
- The impact of sweeping financial reform on small to mid-size businesses and investors in the minority community
- The need to revisit unimpeachable practices in M&A valuation and financing before esoteric tools such as collateralized debt obligations and credit default swaps gained primacy
- The importance of continuing dialogue among thought leaders, shapers of policy and business practitioners on “moral hazard” and its role in economic stability.

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