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Nathaniel Philip Rothschild
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Nathaniel Philip Victor James Rothschild (born 12 July 1971), also
known by his nickname as Nat, is a British-born financier who has
settled in Switzerland,[1] and a scion of the prominent Rothschild
family. He is the Chairman of "JNR Limited", an investment advisory
business primarily focused on emerging markets and the metals, mining
and resources sector. He is Co-Chairman of Bumi plc, a natural
resources group listed on London Stock Exchange. He was Co-Chairman of
the hedge fund Atticus Capital from 1996 until its dissolution in
2009. He has a wide range of international business interests.
Contents
1 Early life
2 Career
3 Investments
4 Personal life
5 Controversies
6 References
7 External links
Early life
Nathaniel Philip Rothschild is the youngest of four children and only
son of Jacob Rothschild, 4th Baron Rothschild and Serena Mary Dunn.
His maternal grandparents were Lady Mary Sybil St. Clair-Erskine and
Sir Philip Gordon Dunn, whose father was the Canadian financier and
tycoon, Sir James Dunn. As the son of a baron, Nathaniel is entitled
to be styled "The Honourable".[2] His mother was from a Christian
background and his father was raised Jewish (his paternal grandmother
had converted to Judaism when marrying his paternal grandfather).[3]
He was educated at Colet Court (in the same year as George Osborne),
Eton College and Wadham College, Oxford where he read history, gaining
a 2:1. Rothschild was a member of the Bullingdon Club as an
undergraduate, at the same time as George Osborne, now Chancellor of
the Exchequer.[4]
Career
Rothschild began his career in 1994 at Lazard Brothers Asset
Management in London, before joining Gleacher Partners, the New
York-based mergers and acquisitions (M&A) advisory firm founded by
Eric Gleacher, former head of M&A at Morgan Stanley and Lehman
Brothers.
Rothschild was the co-chairman (as well as a 50% owner) of Atticus
Capital, an international investment management firm established in
1995, that had offices in New York and London. There he was
instrumental in developing the business, using his extensive contacts
to raise money and hire talent. After the dissolution of Atticus
Capital in 2009, Rothschild became co-chairman of the hedge fund
Attara Capital LP, the successor investment manager to the Atticus
European Fund, which was previously managed by Atticus Capital. He
retired from Attara in December 2011.
Rothschild is the former Chairman of "Vivarte", a pan-European
retailer and owner of the Kookai clothing brand. Appointed in 2000
following NR Atticus's acquisition of a 32.9% stake, in what was
widely regarded as the first hostile proxy fight in France, he led the
group though its successful restructuring and subsequent sale to PAI
Partners, a French private equity firm in 2004.[5]
He became an alternate director of RIT Capital Partners plc in March
2000, and a full non-executive director in 2004 until 2010 when he
stepped down from the RIT board to focus on his other activities. He
remains a substantial direct shareholder of RIT and a 35% beneficial
shareholder of Five Arrows Limited, a Rothschild holding company whose
major asset is shares in RIT.
Since 2010, Rothschild has been a Non-executive director of Barrick
Gold Corporation. He also served as the Chairman of the International
Advisory Board of United Company Rusal plc, the world's largest
aluminum producer from its formation in 2007 until December 2011.
Nathaniel Rothschild is a member of the Belfer Center's International
Council at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government and the
International Advisory Council of the Brookings Institution. He is
also a member of the International Advisory Board of the Barrick Gold
Corporation.
Investments
In 2000, The Observer wrote that, in addition to Nathaniel's then
declared inheritance of £500 million, his actual inheritance "hidden
in a series of trusts in Switzerland is rumoured to be worth
£40bn".[6] Via NR Investments Ltd., his principal investment company,
Nathaniel Rothschild was a cornerstone investor in the United Company
Rusal initial public offering in January 2010. At the same time
Rothschild bought $40 million of Glencore bonds convertible into
shares upon an IPO.
Also Rothschilds NR Investments Ltd. is the largest shareholder (26,5%
End December 2009) of Volex, a Manchester-based electrical cable
maker. Furthermore Nathaniel Rothschild owns a 11% share in BR
Properties, a Brazilian property company, and has an interest in
various property developments in Eastern Europe (Montenegro, Romania
and Ukraine).
In July 2010 Vallar Plc, a Jersey-incorporated investment vehicle
founded by Nathaniel Rothschild, raised £707.2 million ($1.07 billion)
in an Initial public offering on the London Stock Exchange. Vallar is
led by Rothschild and James Campbell, a former Anglo American PLC coal
and base metals chief. Together with other members of the Vallar
management team, they have invested £100 million in shares of the
company. Vallar will focus on investments in mining of metals, coal,
and iron ore in the Americas, Russia, Eastern Europe, and
Australia.[7]
In November 2010, Vallar announced it was buying stakes for $3bn in
two listed Indonesia thermal coal (used for power stations) producers
for a combination of cash and new Vallar shares, with a view to
combining them to create the largest exporter of thermal coal to
China, India, and the other emerging economies of Asia. The
transaction closed as planned on April 8, 2011.[8]
In 2011, Vallar plc was renamed Bumi plc.[9]
In June 2011, Rothschild and Tony Hayward, the former chief executive
of BP plc, listed a successor vehicle to Vallar called Vallares
(LSE:VLRS) in London Stock Exchange, raising $2,2 billion.
Essentially, this was identical in every respect to the first vehicle,
which was metals and mining focused, except that the new entity would
try to acquire oil & gas assets.[10]
In September, Vallares announced a 50/50 all stock merger with Turkish
Energy Champion Genel Energy, valued at $4,2billion.[11]
In 2011, The Sunday Times estimated his personal fortune to be $1.6 billion.[12]
Personal life
He was once briefly married to socialite Annabelle Neilson but they
divorced in 1997. He has since been linked to Natalie Portman, Petra
Nemcova and Princess Florence von Preussen (born 1983), a great
granddaughter of the last Kaiser and a cousin of Queen Elizabeth II.
Rothschild lived for a time in New York before settling in Switzerland
in 2000, and according to the Swiss business magazine Bilanz he is a
resident of Klosters in Graubünden. Despite this, he has regularly
been referred to as one of the most eligible bachelors in New York and
London.
Controversies
In October 2008, he was the subject of much press speculation; it was
revealed that Labour politician Peter Mandelson and the Russian
businessman Oleg Deripaska had met when staying on a yacht moored near
Corfu, in order to attend a party held by Rothschild.[13] After
speculation that this might constitute a conflict of interest for
Mandelson, Rothschild wrote a letter to The Times, alleging that
another guest was Conservative Shadow-Chancellor George Osborne, who,
Rothschild claimed, illicitly tried to solicit a donation from the
Russian for his party.[14]
Further controversy emerged in the summer of 2009, when it was
revealed that Mandelson (recently appointed First Secretary of State)
would be returning to Corfu to stay in a villa owned by Rothschild,
despite in effect acting as Prime Minister during Gordon Brown's
holiday absence.[15]
Rothschild has been linked to the son of Libyan leader Muammar
Gaddafi, Saif al-Islam Gaddafi.[16] In 2009, Saif threw his 37th
birthday party at the Splendid Hotel in Bečići Montenegro where the
guests were rumored to include Arcelor Mittal CEO Lakshmi Mittal, gold
magnate Peter Munk, as well as Oleg Deripaska and Nathaniel
Rothschild.[17][18]
In February 2012 he lost his libel case with the Daily Mail who had
accused him of being a "puppet master" in reporting about his foreign
trips with Peter Mandelson.[19]
References
^ Big cheese banker Nat goes Swiss
^ "The young elite 1-10". The Guardian (London). 2000-03-12. Retrieved
2010-05-19.
^ [1]
^ "The Tories and the oligarch: key characters". London: The Times. 21
October 2008. Retrieved 2008-10-21.
^ PAI launches €1.24bn bid for Vivarte
^ The young elite 1-10, Tom O'Sullivan, The Observer, Sunday 12 March 2000
^ "£707M VALLAR FLOAT EXCEEDS".
express.co.uk.
^ "Vallar Completes Acquiring 75% Berau, Recapital Says".
bloomberg.com.
^ "Vallar to Buy Bumi Minerals for $2.1 Billion to Add Deposits".
bloomberg.com. Retrieved 30 July 2011.
^ "Hayward’s Vallares Raises $2.2 Billion in IPO".
bloomberg.com.
Retrieved 17 June 2011.
^ "Hayward’s Vallares to Acquire Iraq Fields in $2.1 Billion Genel
Merger".
bloomberg.com. Retrieved 7 Sept 2011.
^ Rothschild, Miller Tie for No. 1 on U.K.'s Fund 'Rich List'
Bloomberg, Friday, May 6, 2011
^ Goodley, Simon (6 May 2011). "Nat Rothschild leaps from the
Bullingdon to join billionaires' club". The Guardian (London).
^ "Nathaniel Rothschild Letter to the Editor". The Times (London).
2008-10-21. Retrieved 2010-05-19.
^ Peter Mandelson: The rich love his power, he adores their wealth
^ Now Nat Rothschild hobnobs with Gaddafi jnr
^ Lord Mandelson and Nat Rothschild share Brazilian ambitions
^ Libya After Lockerbie bombers release heats Mandy hes forced deny deal Gaddafi
^ "Nat Rothschild loses libel case", 10 February 2012, The Guardian
External links
BUMI plc - Natural resources group partly owned by Nathaniel Rothschild
Profile of Nat. Rothschild on web site of Bumi plc
Genel Energy - Oil company partly owned by Nathaniel Rothschild
Atricles
"The Man Who May Become the Richest Rothschild", The New York Times,
March 9 2007
"Atticus Capital to close two hedge funds", The Sunday Times, August 11 2009
"Man in the News: Nathaniel Rothschild", Financial Times, November 19 2010
"King Nat’s mines", Financial Times, January 14 2011
"From Klosters to Kurdistan", Wall Street Journal, September 12 2011
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