Front and Center: Reginald Lewis with his key players in the Beatrice deal team. The Beatrice buyout would put Lewis among Wall Street’s most elite dealmakers, including Nelson Peltz and Michael Milken. Courtesy Reginald F. Lewis familyThough Lewis boasted of sleeping four to five hours a night, he had some very big dreams. The McCall Pattern Company was a subsidiary of Norton Simon Industries, a multibillion-dollar conglomerate and a former client of Lewis’ law firm. “Reginald single-handedly built an empire that changed our perception of what a Black man could accomplish," says Robert Smith.

Source: Forbes April 03, 2021 09:56 UTC