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SCO to continue the fight?

SCO to continue the fight?

Posted Feb 17, 2008 7:54 UTC (Sun) by klbrun (subscriber, #45083)
Parent article: SCO to continue the fight?

Is it this Stephen Norris? (from http://www.snpartners.com/norris.html)

" Steve Norris was one of the co-founders of The Carlyle Group in Washington, D.C. serving as
President of its management company from inception in 1987 to 1996.  He will be Chairman of
Stephen Norris & Co. Capital Partner's Investment Committee and will principally focus on
sourcing of investment opportunities and investment strategy, as well as structuring and
negotiating investments and exits from investments.

        Mr. Norris was involved in the decision-making process in essentially every major
Carlyle investment decision from its beginning as a $105 million fund that made investments of
more than four times that amount through extensive use of co-investors and strategic partners.
Those investments yielded an annual return on investment in excess of 40%.  He also served on
the boards of directors of major Carlyle portfolio companies. He was actively involved in
recruiting all of Carlyle's current senior partners and played a major role in recruiting
President George W. Bush to serve as a director of one of its portfolio companies and in
enlisting former Secretary of State James Baker III and former Secretary of Defense Frank C.
Carlucci to be senior partners of Carlyle.

        Mr. Norris acted as a principal financial advisor to Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal Al
Saud of Kingdom Holding Company, in structuring and negotiating the re-capitalization of
Citibank, which returned over $15 billion in profits on about $590 million of equity invested.
He also advised or played a key role in other Kingdom Holding Company investments. He was
appointed by former president George H.W. Bush and confirmed by the U.S. Senate to serve as
one of five governing members of the $100 billion Federal Retirement System Thrift Investment
Board.

        Since 1997, Mr. Norris, and certain members of his team, have worked on a number of
investments including real estate investments in Europe and the United States.  They were
involved in amongst others the privatization of Thompson CSF, the recapitalization of Suez,
the acquisition of portions of Credit Foncier's real estate portfolio in Paris by the German
firm of IVG, the formation of Nomura's (London) bid for a Dutch mortgage bank, the offer by a
major Saudia Arabian investment firm for Lamborgini in Italy, and the formation of a bid by
Leucadia International's for the Labouchere Bank in Holland.  He also negotiated and
structured investments in Synxis Corporation, which was backed by George Soros and Mr. Norris,
and MARC Global Holdings.

        Mr. Norris served as a law clerk on the U.S. Tax Court and earned a B.S. and J.D from
the University of Alabama, was a fellow at Yale Law School and earned a L.L.M. in Taxation
from New York University."


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