Lee, Higginson & Co.
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Lee, Higginson & Co. was a prominent Boston-based investment bank during the 1840s to
1932, home of many members of Boston Brahmin establishment. The bank collapsed in the
Swedish match scandal in 1932 while under the leadership of Jerome Davis Greene. Also
known for financing the growth of General Motors. The lavish headquarters building of
Lee, Higginson in lower Manhattan, built 1928, is now the private Léman Manhattan
Preparatory School.
In 1935, former Lee, Higginson bankers, William M. Blair and Francis Bonner, founded
investment Blair Bonner & Company, which today is William Blair & Company.
威廉布莱尔公司于1935年1月8日成立,当时名为Blair, Bonner&Co.,创始人为William M. Blair和
Francis A. Bonner,此二人曾经在Lee, Higginson&Co.工作,但是这家投行在1932年至1933年股市
危机中倒闭。
威廉布莱尔公司是员工持股的私人金融服务公司,提供投资银行,证券研究,经纪,资产管理和私
人资本服务。威廉布莱尔公司其创始人来自Lee, Higginson&Co.