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Goldberg, Michael

Goldman Sachs & Co.

Goldsmith, Sir James

Goldstone, Steven

background and education of
bidding approach and
Johnson and
merger agreement and
in peace talks
second round of bidding and
special committee and
tender offer

Golub, Stephen

Good, Daniel

Gora, John

Gordon, Sammy

Gotbaum, Josh

Graham Magnetics

Grand Metropolitan PLC

Gray, Bowman, Jr.

Gray, Bowman, Sr.

Gray, Harry

Gray, James

Gray Klein

Green, Adolphus

Greene, Jamie

Greeniaus, H. John

career climb of
due diligence and
Johnson and
leveraged buyouts and
Raether-Stuart meeting with
special committee and

Greensboro
(N.C.)
News & Record

Greenspan, Alan

Grierson, Ronald

Group, The

Grove, Bohemian

Gruss, Martin

Gulf + Western

Gun-to-the-head strategy

Gutfreund, John

The Drexel Problem and
Johnson and
second round of bidding and

Gutfreund, Susan

Gutoff, Ruben

Haft, Herbert

Hall, Floyd

Hammerhill Paper

Handelsman, Hank

Hanley, John

Hanson Trust PLC

Harper, Charles M.

Harris, J. Ira

background and education of
Johnson and
Pritzker and
special committee and

Hartford Insurance

Helms, Jesse

Henderson, Harold

due diligence and
Kravis’s offer and

Herrmann, John

Hersch, Dennis

Heublein

Hill, J. Tomilson, III

Boisi and
The First Boston Group and
Good and
in The Group
Johnson and
leveraged buyouts and
in peace talks
second round of bidding and

Hines, Andy

Hobbs, Franklin W. (“Fritz”), IV

Holder, Nancy

Hoots, Gene

Hope, Bob

Horrigan, Betty

Horrigan, Edward J.

background and education of
Johnson and
Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. questioning of
Kravis’s offer and
leveraged buyouts and
perks of
personality of
resignation of
in RJ Reynolds Industries succession struggle
second round of bidding and
Wilson and

Hostile takeovers.
See also specific companies

Houminer, Ehud

Hugel, Charles E.

anonymous memo received by
anonymous package received by
appointed chairman of RJR Nabisco
career climb of
Greeniaus and
Johnson and
Kravis and
leveraged buyout offer and
special committee and

Hunter, Morgan

Hunt Wesson

Icahn, Carl

Incorn

Insider-trading

Installment notes

Institutional investors

Internal Revenue Code

Investment bankers.
See also specific firms

Kravis’s hiring of
in Salomon Brothers

ITT Corporation

Jackson, Reggie

Jacobs, Jimmy

Jennifer Syndrome

Jenrette, Richard H.

Jim Walter

Johnson, Bruce

Johnson, Caroline

Johnson, F. Ross

background and education of
bidding approach of
bodyguards of
career climb of
in cartoons
due diligence and
firings by
Forstmann and
free-spending ways of
fundraising
Goldstone and
golf playing of
income of
jokes about
Kravis and
leveraged buyout announced by
leveraged buyouts considered by
management agreement and
media coverage of
moping of
Nabisco Brands and
named chief executive RJR Nabisco
as noncompany man
personality of
post-RJR Nabisco career of
products developed by
resignation of
Robinson’s friendship with
salesmanship of
at Standard Brands
second round of bidding and
social climbing of
son’s accident
survival knack of
taxes of
tender offer and
third bid and
Weigl and
Wilson and
Winston-Salem problems of

Johnson, Frederick

Johnson, Hobert

Johnson, Laurie

golf playing of
gossip about
Hugel’s view of
shopping of

Johnston, Jim

Jordan, Vernon

Junk bonds

Forstmann’s views on
mutant strains of

Kalvaria, Leon

Kampe, Dick

Karan, Donna

Katy Industries

Katz, Stanley

Kaufman, Henry

Kekst, Gershon

Kekst & Co.

Kellogg

Kelly, Donald

Kelso & Co.

Kentucky Fried Chicken

Keough, Don

Kidder, C. Robert

Kinnear, James

Kirkland, David

Kissinger, Henry

Klein, Melvyn N.

Kleinberg, Larry

Klinsky, Steve

Kluge, John

Kohlberg, James

Kohlberg, Jerome (Jerry)

health problems of
severance agreement of

Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.

bid delivered by
due diligence and
final bid of
Horrigan questioned by
lawsuits against
leveraged buyouts and
Manufacturers Hanover hired by
media criticism of
megadeals sought by
misinformation spread by
negotiations cut off with
options considered by
press criticism of
projections and
RJR Nabisco’s announcement of leveraged buyout and
second round of bidding and
Shearson Lehman Hutton in peace talks with
at Skadden Arps
tender offer made by

Kolton, Paul

Koppers Co.

Kraft

Kramer, Morris

Kravis, Bessie

Kravis, Henry

background and education of
Beattie and
Beck and
career climb of
Cohen’s meetings with
commercial bank problems of
The Drexel Problem and
due diligence and
Forstmann’s view of
franchise speech of
investment banks assembled by
Johnson and
leveraged buyouts and
Linda Robinson and
Norwich’s confrontation with
$125 million offer of
as outsider to deal
personality of
RJR Nabisco’s announcement of leveraged buyout and
at RJR Nabisco board meeting
Robinson and
second round of bidding and
Sticht and
Strauss’s conflict with
tender offer made by
Wilson’s talks with

Kravis, Raymond

Kreps, Juanita

Kroger

Lambert, Bill

Lane, Jeff

Laver, Rod

Lazard Freres

L. B. Foster

Lear Siegler

LeBon, Doug

Lehman Brothers Kuhn Loeb

Leveraged buyouts

Bagley’s attempt to block
Beck’s proposal for
boom in
cost cutting and
critics of
defined
due diligence process and
fees for
gun-to-the-head strategy in
intellectual basis for
junk bonds and
profits and
projections in
of RJR Nabisco
announcement
Shearson’s entry into
Spangler’s offer of
start of
syndicated loans in
used car purchase compared to
workings of

Levine, Dennis

Lewis, Drew

Lewis, Salim (“Cy”)

Limited partnerships

Lindner, Carl

Lindsay, Scott

Lipton, Martin