Mina Gerowin to receive European Industry Leadership Award |
Date: Wednesday, August 12, 2009
Author: Hedgeweek.com
Mina Gerowin, managing director of Paulson Europe, will be the recipient of the 100 Women in Hedge Funds 2009 European Industry Leadership Award.
Gerowin will be presented with the award at a 100 Women in Hedge
Funds fundraiser in London on 7 October 2009, to benefit the UK
education charity Shine.
'We are thrilled that Mina Gerowin will accept the 100 Women in Hedge
Funds' European Industry Leadership Award,' says Effie K. Datson, chair
of 100 Women in Hedge Funds' London board. 'Mina has demonstrated the
type of leadership and entrepreneurial acumen that has become
synonymous with the industry; moreover, she is committed to
contributing to the non profit activities that she is equally
passionate about.'
Gerowin is managing director of Paulson Europe and a partner of Paulson
& Co, specialising in European merger and event-driven investment,
including distressed and restructuring investment and the risk
arbitrage of both debt and equity.
Gerowin spent more than 25 years as a problem-solving private
investor/operating executive and an investment banker. She has worked
as an interim chief executive specializing in restructuring as well as
mergers and acquisitions. She managed her own industrial acquisitions
as a founding principal in an LBO partnership. The four LBO investments
she made were sold with an aggregate return of close to 1000 per cent
in seven years.
These activities encompassed a wide variety of projects from the
acquisition of Mack Trucks for Renault, the emergence from bankruptcy
of Smith International and Elsinore, restructurings of NTL out of
bankruptcy, Nasdaq Europe to the restructuring of ailing steel trading,
hotel, terminal, and others. She has participated in the creation of
profitable internet businesses, the negotiation and sale of businesses
and patents, and secured bank financing and venture funding for
clients.
Gerowin's professional affiliations include more than seven years at
Lazard Freres where she was banker to some of the largest transnational
mergers of the 1980s. Subsequently, she ran the restructuring
department at Dean Witter, before co-founding an LBO firm. From 1991
to1994 she was a managing director of Golodetz Holdings. Prior to
banking, she practiced corporate and securities law in the US and
Switzerland.