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Quattrone indicted

The WSJ reports that CSFB tech banker Frank Quattrone has just been indicted on obstruction-of-justice charges. "The three-count indictment, handed up Monday in Manhattan federal court, accuses Mr. Quattrone of urging colleagues in an e-mail...


Frank Quattrone's rebound relationships

Having cleared his name of obstruction-of-justice charges, former Credit Suisse tech investment banker Frank Quattrone is launching his own boutique firm, Qatalyst Partners. Several big Valley names volunteered quotes for the press release. It's...


Frank Quattrone prepares for re-entry

Feel the love for onetime Valley investment mandarin Smilin' Frank Quattrone, as the San Jose Mercury News extracts numerous complimentary quotes from those eager to make a buck with the man and/or terrified of his potential return. With his many...


"My experience with the justice system opened my eyes to the horrific plight of wrongfully convicted prisoners, most of whom don't have the resources to regain their freedom by proving their innocence." — Frank Quattrone, former Credit...


Frank Quattrone advises Google's Eric Schmidt on how to do absolutely nothing

Google's best hope in the Yahoo takeover battle is to have nothing happen. A Yahoo, weak but independent, providing just enough competition to keep antitrust cops off Google's back, is the best outcome. To assure that, CEO Eric Schmidt has turned...


Friend of Frank's

You know, I said I wasn't going to link to Always-On, but I've changed my mind. I was reading Always-On (I have a few brain cells left and I'd like to kill them) and I noticed an article by Red Herring founder Tony Perkins defending tech banker...


'Not a symbol of corruption'

Frank Quattrone, the once-powerful investment banker who paid off friendly executives with hot IPO stock in the 1990s, is employing a specialist PR firm to browbeat bloggers who suggest he's a crook. The latest target: Starked SF, a small San...


And we have a banker!

Attorney General Eliot Spitzer is now negotiating immunity agreements for people associated with Credit Suisse First Boston's former superstar tech banker, Frank Quattrone, many of whom received potentially illegal IPO allocations. A list of 63...


A reunion of the Friends of Frank

How cosy. Silicon Valley venture capitalists, many of them beneficiaries of Frank Quattrone's generosity in the 1990s, gave the former investment banker a standing ovation at his public rehabilitation last night in Menlo Park. Allow me just one...


Rehabilitation through philanthropy

TIM FAULKNER — Frank Quattrone continues to rehab the perception that he is the poster child for corruption in the late-90s tech boom by following the path of his late-80s counterpart Michael Milken, the Drexel junk bond king: remaking...