Crédit Lyonnais

  • 2011 - NYT - A.I.G. Unit and a French Bank Settle a Lawsuit
  • Credit Agricole SA bought Credit Lyonnais in 2003

Leon Black, 

  • Soon after, executives of the French bank Crédit Lyonnais reached out to Black about teaming up on a venture that would try to replicate Drexel’s success. 
  • He and Crédit Lyonnais went big, buying up more than $6 billion of bonds held by insurer Executive Life, which had been among Milken’s biggest clients. 

2020 0116 - BloombergBusinessweek - Nobody Makes Money Like Apollo’s Ruthless Founder Leon Black:The private equity CEO with a fearsome reputation skates on the edges of other people’s catastrophes and manages to walk away richer., By Caleb Melby and Heather Perlberg - [link]