José Olympio, Donaldson Lufkin & Jenrette

Making up the rules in Brazil

Making up the rules in Brazil

The light green paint smells fresh and the pictures are not yet on the walls in Donaldson Lufkin & Jenrette’s São Paulo office. The office is new but boss José Olympio is even newer, having arrived in February and ordered a sprucing up.

It’s early days for DLJ transactions but Olympio has a stack of deals behind him from his 13 years at Garantia, Brazil’s most aggressive investment bank recently sold to Credit Suisse First Boston.

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