Stan Lazar, co-managing companion of Shepard Schwartz & Harris, has died, solely days after his Chicago-based agency merged into Citrin Cooperman.
Final week, Citrin Cooperman, a High 25 Agency based mostly in New York, introduced it had expanded into the Windy Metropolis by including SSH, the newest in a string of M&A offers since Citrin acquired personal fairness funding from New Mountain Capital final yr (see story). Lazar, 62, and co-managing companion Mary Fuller negotiated the cope with Citrin.
“We misplaced one among our companions and mates,” Fuller wrote in an inside agency memo. “Phrases can not specific how a lot we are going to miss the power he dropped at our workplace and the recollections. I’ll miss his coming into my workplace to speak about no matter was on his thoughts. I’ll miss the ‘loopy concepts’ he sprang on me on a regular basis. Our prayers are with Stan’s household and mates.”
Stan Lazar
She and Lazar had been anticipated to develop into co-managing companions of the newly established Citrin Cooperman workplace in SSH’s current downtown Chicago location.
Citrin Cooperman govt chairman Joel Cooperman remembered his time with Lazar. “I can not put into phrases the vacancy and devastation I really feel,” he stated in a press release. “My favourite recollections of Stan included his complaining about not understanding learn how to use his laptop in addition to sitting with him on his balcony in Florida in his sleeveless inexperienced t-shirt smiling and joking about something you can think about. We misplaced a fantastic companion and all of us misplaced a fantastic pal.”
Koltin Consulting Group CEO Allan Koltin, who negotiated the merger, reminisced about his pal. “Stan was a fantastic chief and beloved by his household, mates, agency members, shoppers and the neighborhood,” stated Koltin. “His smile and contagious enthusiasm rubbed off on everybody he met. He was so good and inventive however recognized extra for his massive coronary heart and his capacity to brighten the world of everybody he met. His inspiration and zest for dwelling life to the fullest will likely be what I’ll bear in mind most about him. Could his reminiscence be for a blessing.”
Lazar died on July 21. A funeral is deliberate for Thursday, July 28, at Previous St. Patrick’s Catholic Church in Chicago.