Lehman Brothers

defunct American financial services firm
Organization investment_bank Q212900
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Summary

Lehman Brothers is an investment bank[1]. It ranks in the top 8% of investment bank entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (22,999 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Member of: Initiative Finanzstandort Deutschland[3]
  • Country: United States[4]
  • Instance of: business[5], public company[6]
  • Founder: Henry Lehman[7], Emanuel Lehman[8], Mayer Lehman[9]
  • Named after: Henry Lehman[10], Emanuel Lehman[11], Mayer Lehman[12]
  • Headquarters location: New York City[13]
  • Chief executive officer: Richard S. Fuld[14]
  • Child organization or unit: Trilantic Capital Partners[15]
  • Commons category: Lehman Brothers[16]
  • Stock exchange: New York Stock Exchange[17]
  • Industry: investment[18], financial services[19], financial service activities, except insurance and pension funding[20]
  • Country of origin: United States[21]
  • Inception: January 1, 1850[22]
  • Dissolved, abolished or demolished date: January 1, 2008[23]
  • Location of formation: Montgomery[24]
  • Significant event: bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers[25]
  • Official website: http://www.lehman.com[26]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Lehman Brothers[27]
  • Product or material produced: investment banking[28], asset management[29]
  • Employees: 28,556[30], 26,200[31]
  • Replaced by: Tenaya Capital[32]
  • Legal form: Delaware corporation[33]
  • Owner of: Federal Cartridge[34]
  • Total revenue: 19,257,000,000 US dollars[35], 46,709,000,000 US dollars[36]
  • Net profit: 4,000,000,000 US dollars[37]

Why It Matters

Lehman Brothers has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[38] It is known by 44 alternative names across languages and contexts.[39]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [20] ↑ . 20th Century Press Archives. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  18. [3] ↑ . heise.de. Retrieved . heise.de. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  26. [28] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  27. [29] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  28. [30] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  29. [31] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  30. [32] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  31. [33] ↑ . Global LEI Index. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  32. [34] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  33. [35] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  34. [36] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  35. [37] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [38] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [39] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 8w ago · Trivialist · 2026-08-22 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14750 → DFB0-442C-1035-53A1-2E58
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  2. 11w ago · Printstream · 2026-07-31 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Corporate number (japan) → 4010001142992
    Reddit topic id → lehman_brothers
    Significant event → bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers
    Headquarters → —
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