Reginald F. Lewis

Why Should White Guys Have All the Fun?: How Reginald Lewis Created a Billion-Dollar Business Empire

Biography of Black entrepreneur who built billion-dollar leveraged buyout firm

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Reginald F. Lewis

Reginald F. Lewis was the first African American to build a billion-dollar business enterprise, completing the leveraged buyout of Beatrice International Foods in 1987 for $985 million—at the time the largest offshore leveraged buyout in history. His posthumously published memoir remains a landmark of American business biography.