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Robert H. Lessin, Jeffries Vice Chairman and Angel Investor, Dies at 56 - The New York Times

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Robert H. Lessin, a longtime Wall Street banker and technology angel investor, died on Monday evening. He was 56. The cause of death was not disclosed in a note sent Tuesday morning to employees of Jefferies & Company, where Mr. Lessin was vice chairman. A person close to the family would only say that he died after a long illness. Mr. Lessin had spent more than three decades as an investment banker, holding senior titles at Morgan Stanley, Salomon Smith Barney and Wit Capital, a boutique investment banking firm. A graduate of Harvard University and its business school, Mr. Lessin started his career at Morgan Stanley, where he rapidly ascended the ranks, becoming in 1987 the youngest partner in the firm’s history. In the 1980s, Mr. Lessin was instrumental in building Morgan Stanley’s advisory business for buyout firms, creating an in-house think tank that identified the best transactions for companies and buyout firms. “He used to have huge charts predicting what companies would be bou

Jefferies & Company Robert H. Lessin, vice chairman of Jefferies and a longtime Wall Street banker. Robert H. Lessin, a longtime Wall Street banker and technology angel investor, died on Monday evening. He was 56. The cause of death was not disclosed in a note sent Tuesday morning to employees of Jefferies & Company, where Mr. Lessin was vice chairman. A person close to the family would only say that he died after a long illness. Mr. Lessin had spent more than three decades as an investment banker, holding senior titles at Morgan Stanley , Salomon Smith Barney and Wit Capital, a boutique inves

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