Antonio Weiss is Global Head of Investment Banking for Lazard. From 2001 to 2009, he was based in Paris, where he served as Vice Chairman of European Investment Banking and, subsequently, Global Head of Mergers and Acquisitions.
Mr. Weiss has advised clients in a broad range of industries and geographies, most often in transactions with a contested or cross-border dimension. Recent transactions include the pending sale of D.E Master Blenders 1753 to an investor group led by Joh. A. Benckiser, the pending acquisition of Heinz by 3G and Berkshire Hathaway, the combination of Grupo Modelo and Anheuser Busch InBev, the purchase of Human Genome Sciences by GSK, the acquisition of Motorola by Google, the buy-out of Burger King by 3G, the acquisition of Cadbury by Kraft, the sale of the North American bottling operations of Coca-Cola Enterprises to Coca-Cola, the acquisition of Anheuser Busch by InBev, the merger of KKR and KPE and the acquisitions of Gerber and Novartis Medical Nutrition by Nestlé.
Mr. Weiss speaks regularly on the market for corporate control, including recent keynote addresses at the Tulane Corporate Law Institute and the International Bar Association, as well as the University of Pennsylvania Institute for Law and Economics, where he is a Board Member.
Mr. Weiss is a graduate of Yale College and Harvard Business School, where he was a Baker Scholar and Loeb Fellow. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a Trustee of the Frick Collection and the French-American Foundation. He is also Publisher of The Paris Review, the leading literary quarterly.