Dick Fuld to Speak in NYC in Late May

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From WSJ:

Richard Fuld Jr., who was chief executive of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., has been largely out of the public eye since the firm collapsed in 2008. But that’s set to change next month.

The organizers of the 2015 Marcum MicroCap Conference said that Mr. Fuld will address conference attendees in his “first major public address since leaving Lehman Brothers in 2008,” the conference organizers said in a press release.

Mr. Fuld will discuss “the strategy employed by Lehman Brothers to become one of the world’s leading investment banks, aspects of the financial crisis, the current capital market environment, and the keys to success for today’s growth companies choosing to access the capital markets now,” the release said.

Mr. Fuld won’t take a fee for his speech, and one of the conference organizers’, David Bukzin, a partner at Marcum LLP, said that Mr. Fuld asked Marcum to instead donate his speaking fee, which would have been in the “low five figures” to the non-profit Harlem Children’s Zone instead. Mr. Fuld will take questions from the audience, Mr. Bukzin said.

While he hasn’t been much in the public eye, Mr. Fuld hasn’t been entirely absent from deal making. In October, the Journal reported that Mr. Fuld advised a little-known company called OpenMatch Holdings LLC in its acquisition of the 130-year-old National Stock Exchange.

Mr. Fuld’s Matrix Advisors LLC worked on that deal. Matrix was launched by Mr. Fuld in April 2009, roughly seven months after Lehman’s September 2008 bankruptcy—the largest bankruptcy in U.S. history.

Other clients of Matrix have included Ecologic Transportation Inc. and GlyEco Inc., according to regulatory filings.

The firm’s website lists just the Matrix Advisors’ name and address in midtown Manhattan but promises more “coming soon.” According to LinkedIn, Matrix has at least ten employees. Matrix and Mr. Fuld did not respond to requests for comment that were relayed to an assistant at the firm.

It’s a far cry from the roughly 25,000 employees that Mr. Fuld oversaw during his tenure as chairman and chief executive of Lehman from 1994 through 2008. (He took over as CEO in 1993).

While Mr. Fuld has occasionally been photographed with his wife at social functions in recent years, he has kept perhaps the lowest-profile of all financial-crisis era bank CEOs.

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