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- Paul B. Kazarian (/kəˈzæriən/ kə-ZARR-ee-ən; born October 15, 1955) is an Armenian-American investor, philanthropist, and former investment banker. He is the founder, managing director and chief executive officer (CEO) of Japonica Partners, a private equity hedge fund. Previous to his founding of the firm, he was an investment banker for Goldman Sachs and briefly served as the president and CEO of Sunbeam-Oster from 1990 to 1993 as a corporate raider. He is known for his bidding wars with high net worth individuals and companies to gain assets for his firm, most notably his bidding war against Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (KKR) for the acquisition of Borden. Kazarian is seen to be secretive about current or future investment decisions; he opens and closes positions without prior announcement or much after-trade commentary. He is considered by the investment community to be a "vulture capitalist". Due to its high buy-ins ($250 million), The Hedge Fund Journal called his fund a "money manager for money managers". During the 2013 Greek government-debt crisis, Kazarian become one of the largest bidders for Greek bonds, eventually executing a bond portfolio of €2.9 billion (US$3.8 billion). As the sole owner of the bond position, this portfolio makes up the majority of his overall net worth. On December 11, 2017, it was reported that Kazarian opened an office branch in Lisbon, Portugal tasked with "snapping up assets" in the country's real estate and technology markets. (en)
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- Kazarian speaking before the Project Management Institute Congress in 2015 (en)
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- Executing an outsized sovereign bond portfolio during the 2013 Greek government-debt crisis (en)
- Founding and leading Japonica Partners (en)
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- Investor and philanthropist (en)
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- Japonica's Kazarian: "How & Why I Bought 4 bn in Greek Bonds"–GreekReporter, December 2013 (en)
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- Paul B. Kazarian (/kəˈzæriən/ kə-ZARR-ee-ən; born October 15, 1955) is an Armenian-American investor, philanthropist, and former investment banker. He is the founder, managing director and chief executive officer (CEO) of Japonica Partners, a private equity hedge fund. Previous to his founding of the firm, he was an investment banker for Goldman Sachs and briefly served as the president and CEO of Sunbeam-Oster from 1990 to 1993 as a corporate raider. (en)
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