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Banker Suicides Return: DSK's Hedge Fund Partner Jumps From 23rd Floor Apartment
The summer, thankfully, has been largely bereft of the dismal trend of bankers committing suicide, but as Bloomberg reports, Thierry Leyne, a French-Israeli banker and partner of Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the disgraced former chief of the IMF, was found dead Thursday after apparently taking his own life by jumping off the 23rd floor of one of the Yoo towers, a prestigious residential complex in Tel Aviv. This is the 16th financial services executive death this year.
Bloomberg reports that Thierry Leyne, the French-Israeli entrepreneur who last year started an investment firm with former International Monetary Fund Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn, has died. He was 48.
Leyne died yesterday in Tel Aviv, according to his assistant at the firm, who asked not to be identified. Le Figaro newspaper reported that he committed suicide.
Last year, Leyne joined Strauss-Kahn in establishing the Paris-traded firm Leyne, Strauss-Kahn & Partners after the former IMF head bought a 20 percent stake to help develop the investment-banking franchise of Leyne’s company, Luxembourg-based Anatevka SA. Leyne had taken Anatevka public in March 2013 before joining forces with Strauss-Kahn, commonly referred to in France as DSK.
The new partnership -- usually called LSK & Partners by using both men’s initials -- was part of Strauss-Kahn’s efforts to rebuild his post-IMF life after he was charged in 2011 of criminal sex, attempted rape, sexual abuse, unlawful imprisonment and the forcible touching of a chambermaid at the Sofitel hotel in Manhattan. Strauss-Kahn denied the charges, which were later dropped. He settled the maid’s lawsuit in 2012.
Mr. Leyne, 48, jumped off the 23rd floor of one of the Yoo towers, a prestigious residential complex, according to Israeli officials.
Leyne, who resided in Tel Aviv, built his career as a financier in France, Israel and Luxembourg. He founded the investment firm Assya Capital in 1994 and listed it on Euronext in Paris in 2001. Leyne merged the business with Global Equities Capital Markets in 2010 to provide financial advice and private banking to clients in eastern Europe, Le Figaro reported.
Anatevka, which had a market value of 50 million euros ($63 million) when Strauss-Kahn purchased his stake, controlled the merged entity, known as Assya Compagnie Financiere, offering asset management, brokerage, corporate finance and capital investment. Anatevka had a staff of about 100 people in six countries -- Luxembourg, Belgium, Monaco, Israel, Switzerland and Romania -- in September 2013.
In 1996, Leyne founded the company Axfin, one of the first independent investment firms in France, according to the website of Assya Capital. Axfin listed on the Paris stock exchange in 1999 before it was bought by Nuremberg, Germany-based Consors Discount Broker AG. Leyne was the supervisory board chairman of Consors France until the end of 2002.
Leyne was born in September 1965, according to French public records. He held French and Israeli citizenship, Figaro said. He had an engineering degree from the Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, his LinkedIn profile shows.
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This is the 16th financial services executive death this year...
1 - William Broeksmit, 58-year-old former senior executive at Deutsche Bank AG, was found dead in his home after an apparent suicide in South Kensington in central London, on January 26th.
2 - Karl Slym, 51 year old Tata Motors managing director Karl Slym, was found dead on the fourth floor of the Shangri-La hotel in Bangkok on January 27th.
3 - Gabriel Magee, a 39-year-old JP Morgan employee, died after falling from the roof of the JP Morgan European headquarters in London on January 27th.
4 - Mike Dueker, 50-year-old chief economist of a US investment bank was found dead close to the Tacoma Narrows Bridge in Washington State.
5 - Richard Talley, the 57 year old founder of American Title Services in Centennial, Colorado, was found dead earlier this month after apparently shooting himself with a nail gun.
6 - Tim Dickenson, a U.K.-based communications director at Swiss Re AG, also died last month, however the circumstances surrounding his death are still unknown.
7 - Ryan Henry Crane, a 37 year old executive at JP Morgan died in an alleged suicide just a few weeks ago. No details have been released about his death aside from this small obituary announcement at the Stamford Daily Voice.
8 - Li Junjie, 33-year-old banker in Hong Kong jumped from the JP Morgan HQ in Hong Kong this week.
9 - James Stuart Jr, Former National Bank of Commerce CEO, found dead in Scottsdale, Ariz., the morning of Feb. 19. A family spokesman did not say whatcaused the death
10 - Edmund (Eddie) Reilly, 47, a trader at Midtown’s Vertical Group, commited suicide by jumping in front of LIRR train
11 - Kenneth Bellando, 28, a trader at Levy Capital, formerly investment banking analyst at JPMorgan, jumped to his death from his 6th floor East Side apartment.
12 - Jan Peter Schmittmann, 57, the former CEO of Dutch bank ABN Amro found dead at home near Amsterdam with wife and daughter.
13 - Li Jianhua, 49, the director of China's Banking Regulatory Commission died of a sudden heart attack
14 - Lydia _____, 52 - jumped to her suicide from the 14th floor of Bred-Banque Populaire in Paris
15 - Julian Knott, 45 - killed wife and self with a shotgun in Jefferson Township, New Jersey
16 - Thierry Leyne, 48 - jumped from 23rd floor apartment in Tel Aviv.
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Someone must have made a pass on him...hmmm.
All part of the same crap...all these hedgies and financiers who make huge bets, many fail and crap out of their synthetic systems.
Movie 'Jumpers' wasn't anything like this.
Dammit, he got it all wrong It's supposed to be the "OHHHH Yeahhhhh" Kool-Aid (ebola) Man, not the fuckin Nestea Plunge!
Jump, all of you banker cunts. JUMP!!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yge311sFhC8
When does Jon Cozine show up on this list?
Corzine appears on the list after John Paulson and not before.
Dear banksters,
You can fly. Try it, you'll like it.
An American, not US subject.
oi vey!
A banker.. AND Jewish? Say it isn't so!
With no insurance to prevent this? Impossible!
What a pleasure to be surrounded by all these ZH archangels that obey every traffic law, help old ladies cross the street and raise angelic children.
See you in church, temple, mosque, synagogue or more likely...in hell
You realize that according to the Talmud the end times is when all the gentiles are exterminated and the New Age is their time? Go help your boss kill your family, ziotard.
"Which is worse; pavement, nail gun or snow plow?"
Anything is more entertaining than Colonel Mustard in the library with the candlestick.
A jew with a conscience?
Now that's a "return" I could support.
A non "return" able American, not US subject.
"Now, if we can just get the banksters to think that they're lemmings or something."
Good, another joo banker we don't have deal with. Now only if his brethren would follow suit.
The beauty of corporate owned life insurance, a bit of a boost to earnings this quarter.
Calling B. Masters ...
I guess they do not want to take chances with other ways of removing a problem.
You have to understand, in banker talk "Jump" and "Thrown" are synonyms.
We must pass sensible high-rise control now!!!!!! No one needs more than 6 or 7 floors on their building. No more 23-floor assault buildings!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
talmudick tora bora bankers
as lemmings jumping head first
from high rise .
ribs n guts on tel aviv floors
jesus lives
praise the lord
satan is on the rope a dopes
fuck you zion
and stick that black cube up your arse
Spring! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jbKRgWWml4
Auf einer Brücke ziemlich hochHält ein Mann die Arme auf
Da steht er nun und zögert noch
Die Menschen strömen gleich zuhauf
Auch ich lass mir das nicht entgehen
Das will ich aus der Nähe sehen
Ich stell mich in die erste Reihe
und schreie
Der Mann will von der Brücke steigen
Die Menschen fangen an zu hassen
Bilden einen dichten Reigen
Und wollen ihn nicht nach unten lassen
So steigt er noch mal nach oben
Und der Mob fängt an zu toben
Sie wollen seine Innereien
Und schreien
Spring
Erlöse mich
Spring
Enttäusch mich nicht
Spring für mich
Spring ins Licht
Spring
Jetzt fängt der Mann zu weinen an
Heimlich schiebt sich eine Wolke
fragt sich Was hab ich getan
vor die Sonne es wird kalt
Ich wollte nur zur Aussicht gehen
die Menschen laufen aus den Reihen
und in den Abendhimmel sehen
Und sie schreien
Spring
Sie schreien
Spring
Erlöse mich
Spring
Enttäusch mich nicht
Spring für mich
Spring ins Licht
Spring
Heimlich schiebt sich eine Wolke
vor die Sonne es wird kalt
Doch tausend Sonnen brennen nur für dich
Ich schleich mich heimlich auf die Brücke
Tret ihm von hinten in den Rücken
Erlöse ihn von dieser Schmach
und schrei ihm nach
Spring
Spring
Erlöse dich
Spring
Enttäusch mich nicht
Spring für mich
Spring
Enttäusch mich nicht
Just like a banker....make a mess for someone else to clean up. A real man blows his brains out with a Makarov 9mm poolside in the back acreage, sitting near the tennis court, leaving a half bottle of port still on the outdoor settee. Tsk tsk........I thought the Fed induced DOW and S&P was supposed to take care of all the poor rich kids problems....looks like someone got greedy.
He discovered all the income from the firm’s holdings in the Hookers and Blow ETF (HOOKAB +1.2%) was coming from DSK’s expense account.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aXpty_1xo4
23 Skidoo
Well. I'll drink to that.
AMEN!!!!
I wonder how much life insurance DSK had on this guy.
must of fucked with the wrong bull
maybe he got a conscience?
Anyone thinking of exposing Ponzi schemes should stay away from tall buildings, because such thoughts will make you dizzy. Be carefull around nail guns as well, they may backfire.
New arrival:
41 y-o Calogero Gambino from Deutsche Bank, self-hanged on Oct 20,2014 in NY
http://www.bbc.com/news/business-20695042
Here is the link......
And another one bites the dust
"The German bank has lost in the US one of its top lawyers. According to a report of the "Wall Street Journal" the 41-year-old Calogero Gambino was found dead in New York last Monday. Thus everything points to suicide."
https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=de&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie...
I don't remember suicides during 2008 crash; this is all fishy.