2 Quotes & Sayings By David Godman
David Godman is a founding partner of Godman & Company, a boutique investment firm in New York City. He is also a consultant to leading hedge funds, private equity firms and family offices. Godman has been an advisor to some of the largest corporations in the world, helping them navigate strategic issues and solve strategic dilemmas. In the late 1980s, he was a principal in one of the largest mergers in U.S
history with the formation of the Nabisco Corporation into RJR Nabisco. Godman was also a key player in two other mega-mergers: in 1987, with Richard Feinberg and Richard Perry, he co-founded Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co., which merged with RJR Nabisco to become KKR; and in 1988, with Richard Rainwater, he created Rainwater Management Group, which merged with Lehman Brothers in 1997 to form Lehman Brothers Kuhn Loeb Incorporated. In 1992, with Richard Rainwater and Richard Perry, he founded Wasserstein Perella & Co., one of Wall Street's premier investment banks.