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- ¡ BUSINESS, Page 49Business NotesWALL STREETDrexel II: It's Back?
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- Like the antagonist of a Hollywood horror flick, Drexel
- Burnham Lambert is hard to kill. Wall Street's most dreaded
- investment house, which seemed all but dead and buried when its
- parent company declared bankruptcy last February, is showing
- signs of life again. When the company's brokerage unit filed
- separately for Chapter 11 protection last week, Drexel
- officials said they hope to reorganize the company as a more
- specialized firm. "It will be much smaller, and it won't look
- at all like the old Drexel," says spokesman Steven Anreder.
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- To help put a fresh face on the firm, Chief Executive
- Frederick Joseph, 53, will be replaced by John Sorte, 42,
- previously co-head of the corporate-finance department. While
- Joseph will remain president of the parent company, Sorte will
- handle the job of trying to put the firm back in business. The
- road will be rough. Drexel is likely to encounter skepticism
- in the financial markets and will also face obstacles in
- bankruptcy court. Creditors may challenge the $206 million in
- cash bonuses that the firm paid to employees just before the
- company's collapse.
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