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- BUSINESS, Page 45Business NotesFINANCIERSAn Able Cain Makes a Killing
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- When Financial World magazine published its annual list of
- Wall Street's 100 highest earners last week, no one was
- surprised to see junk-bond pioneer Michael Milken on top (1988
- income: at least $180 million) and leveraged-buyout king Henry
- Kravis ($110 million) in third place. But who was this in the
- No. 2 position? A relatively unknown dealmaker named Gordon
- Cain, 77, took that spot by earning an estimated $120 million
- last year through his Houston LBO firm, Sterling Group.
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- Cain's rise began in 1987 when his company added to its
- string of petrochemical plants, buying at bargain prices.
- Sterling and its partners gambled $1 billion on these plants,
- which were assembled into a single firm known as Cain Chemical.
- Last year Sterling sold the package to Occidental Petroleum in a
- deal that was valued at $2.2 billion. Cain shared his bounty
- with some 1,350 employees, who took home a total of $537
- million.
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