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Name
  
Louis Lowenstein

Children
  
Roger Lowenstein

Education
  
Columbia University

Spouse
  
Helen Lowenstein

Role
  
Attorney


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Died
  
April 18, 2009, Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States

Books
  
The Investor's Dilemma: How Mutual Funds Are Betraying Your Trust And What To Do About It

Similar People
  
Roger Lowenstein, John C Coffee, Susan Rose‑Ackerman, Barbara Corday

Louis Lowenstein (June 13, 1925 – April 18, 2009) was an American attorney. He was a founding partner of Kramer Levin (at the time known as Kramer, Lowenstein, Nessen & Kamin) now one of New York City's leading corporate law firms; president of Supermarkets General, a supermarket conglomerate now known as Pathmark; professor at Columbia University School of Law; and a leading critic of the U.S. financial industry.

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He was the author of several books, including:

  • What’s Wrong With Wall Street: Short Term Gain and the Absentee Shareholder, Addison-Wesley, 1988
  • Sense and Nonsense in Corporate Finance, 1991
  • The Investor’s Dilemma: How Mutual Funds Are Betraying Your Trust and What to Do About It, Wiley, 2008
  • He also coedited and contributed to Knights, Raiders, and Targets: The Impact of the Hostile Takeover, published by Oxford University Press in 1988.

    His son, Roger Lowenstein, is a prominent financial journalist.

    References

    Louis Lowenstein (lawyer) Wikipedia