Dominique Strauss-Kahn Business Partner Is Dead in Apparent Suicide
2014-10-24 12:53:02.842 GMT
Dominique Strauss-Kahn Business Partner Is Dead in Apparent
Suicide
By MAÏA de la BAUME and ISABEL KERSHNER
(New York Times) -- PARIS — Thierry Leyne, a French-Israeli
banker and partner of Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the disgraced
former chief of the International Monetary Fund, was found dead
Thursday after apparently taking his own life in Tel Aviv.
Mr. Leyne, 48, jumped off the 23rd floor of one of the Yoo
towers, a prestigious residential complex, according to Israeli
officials.
The two men met several years ago and, in October 2013,
founded LSK and Partners in an effort to capitalize on the former
fund chief’s experience and expertise. The company offers
investment banking advice and services.
After training as a civil engineer, Mr. Leyne made a career
in private banking, management and investment. In 1994, he
founded Assya Capital, a trading company that was listed on the
Euronext Free Market in 2001.
Mr. Strauss-Kahn became an investment banker after his
career was buffeted by a series of sex scandals. He has helped
the government of South Sudan set up a bank, and advised the
Serbian government on economic issues. He also sits on the board
of two big Russian financial institutions.
Maïa de la Baume reported from Paris, and Isabel Kershner
from Jerusalem.
Copyright 2014 The New York Times Company
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2014-10-24 12:53:02.842 GMT
Dominique Strauss-Kahn Business Partner Is Dead in Apparent
Suicide
By MAÏA de la BAUME and ISABEL KERSHNER
(New York Times) -- PARIS — Thierry Leyne, a French-Israeli
banker and partner of Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the disgraced
former chief of the International Monetary Fund, was found dead
Thursday after apparently taking his own life in Tel Aviv.
Mr. Leyne, 48, jumped off the 23rd floor of one of the Yoo
towers, a prestigious residential complex, according to Israeli
officials.
The two men met several years ago and, in October 2013,
founded LSK and Partners in an effort to capitalize on the former
fund chief’s experience and expertise. The company offers
investment banking advice and services.
After training as a civil engineer, Mr. Leyne made a career
in private banking, management and investment. In 1994, he
founded Assya Capital, a trading company that was listed on the
Euronext Free Market in 2001.
Mr. Strauss-Kahn became an investment banker after his
career was buffeted by a series of sex scandals. He has helped
the government of South Sudan set up a bank, and advised the
Serbian government on economic issues. He also sits on the board
of two big Russian financial institutions.
Maïa de la Baume reported from Paris, and Isabel Kershner
from Jerusalem.
Copyright 2014 The New York Times Company
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