米歇爾·大衛·威爾
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米歇爾·大衛·威爾(Michel David-Weill，1932年11月23日—)：華爾街最後的大亨。
米歇爾·大衛·威爾(Michel David-Weill)，1932年11月23日出生於法國巴黎，法國投資銀行家。米歇爾·大衛·威爾在世界上最傑出的財務咨詢和資產管理機構――拉扎德銀行最後一任由創始人的後代擔任的CEO，在任近25年。
1876年，米歇爾•大衛-威爾的曾祖父在美國舊金山創立了拉扎德銀行。作為近幾十年來最優秀的國際投資銀行之一，拉扎德參與完成了眾多可以寫入華爾街歷史的重大併購、收購案。然而，拉扎德又是低調和神秘的。曾有多少專著、多少報道描述這家銀行和這位傳奇的總裁，而米歇爾·大衛-威爾卻一直小心翼翼地躲避著媒體。
古稀已過的米歇爾·大衛-威爾提筆書寫自己的人生——《The Last Tycoons》（譯為《最後的大亨》）。他在書中言談由衷、毫無保留，涉及我們每個人都關註的主題，設置著一個又一個可能令讀者諸君拍案而起的“挑釁”。他催人思索，他會讓你思緒遄飛。你可以把他的這部回憶錄看做是事業成功的指南，也可以從中讀到一名男子對他的生活的反思。
Michel David-Weill (born November 23, 1932 in Paris, France) is a French investment banker and former Chairman of New York City based Lazard Frères.
He is the son of Berthe Haardt and Lazard Frères chairman Pierre David-Weill (1900-1975). During the last year of Nazi occupation, at age 11, he had to hide with his mother and younger sister, in a French village called Béduer (Lot, south-western France). After the war was over, he went to live in New York City with his family. He was educated at the Lycée Français de New York and l'Institut d'Etudes Politiques in Paris. In 1956, he married Hélène Marie Lehideux, with whom he has four children.
By inheriting equity stake, he became the largest stake holder in both Lazard New York and Lazard Paris, while also holding stakes in Lazard London. Following the 1977 retirement of André Meyer, Michel David-Weill became chairman of Lazard - working closely with managing director, Felix Rohatyn, who, like David-Weill, was also made senior partner at Lazard in 1961. Also, by the power provided in clause 4.1 of Lazard partnership agreement, he alone had the power to set compensations and had the right to fire any partners at his discretion.
Under David-Weill's direction, Lazard began to expand its business from traditional M&A advising to areas such as asset management and municipal bond. He also made numerous astute hires, most notable being Steve Rattner. Lazard's profits also jumped from $5 million in the late 70s to $500 million in the late 90s.
David-Weill also re-united the branches of Lazard by combining his stakes in New York and Paris and buyout Pearson for its stake in Lazard London for more than $600 million.
After the retirement of Rohatyn, the firm's most prominent deal maker, however, Lazard under David-Weill's leadership began to take a turn for the worse. Other deal makers such as Ira Harris and Rattner also left the firm.
In order to resurrect his fortune, David-Weill made the fateful choice of hiring Bruce Wasserstein as CEO. Wasserstein, however, later decided to put Lazard up for IPO, against the wish of the family patriarch. For that reason, David-Weill has stated that he regretted ever having hired Wasserstein.[citation needed]
He was honored by the government of France, made a Commander of the Legion of Honor and Commander of L'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, that nation's highest cultural honor.
David-Weill is currently a director of Groupe Danone, one of the world's largest food-product companies.
