Lazard, Inc. announced the appointments of Bill Young, Jean Greene, and Paolo Battaglia as Managing Directors in the firm?s Global Industrials Group, all based in New York. Bill Young Joins the Firm as a Managing Director and Head of Diversified Industrials, Jean Greene Rejoins the Firm as a Managing Director and Paolo Battaglia to Join the Firm as a Managing Director. These appointments further strengthen Lazard?s market-leading global Industrials franchise, which advises clients across diversified industrials, building products, chemicals, paper & packaging, transportation & logistics, industrial technology, and aerospace & defense.
Bill Young will serve as Head of Diversified Industrials. Jean Greene returns to Lazard, previously spending two decades at the firm. She will continue as a Managing Director, focused on advising clients across the industrials sector.
Paolo Battaglia will join the firm in December as a Managing Director in Industrials and will advise clients across the sector. Bill Young is a Managing Director and Head of Diversified Industrials at Lazard, advising on transactions across the diversified industrial, industrial technology, and aerospace & defense sectors. Prior to joining Lazard, Bill was Co-Head of the North American Industrials Group as well as Global Co-Head of Diversified and Advanced Industrials sector coverage at Bank of America.
Previously, Bill had been at Credit Suisse as Global Head of Diversified Industrials and Aerospace & Defense, where he originated and executed strategic transactions for a wide range of corporate and financial sponsor clients. Prior to Credit Suisse, Bill spent time at Wasserstein Perella as well as Rothschild & Co. Bill holds an MBA from Columbia Business School, an MSc in Economic History from the University of Oxford, and a BA in Economics and Government from Cornell University.
Jean Greene is a Managing Director in Lazard?s Industrials Group with over 25 years of investment banking experience. She rejoined Lazard after serving as a Managing Director at Bank of America, following two decades at Lazard earlier in her career. Jean began her investment banking career at Smith Barney, focusing on oil and gas financing and advisory.
She serves on the Board of Directors of Dress for Success and the Board of Trustees of Goodspeed Musicals. Jean holds an undergraduate degree in Economics and French from Wellesley College and an MBA in Finance and Accounting from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. Paolo Battaglia will join Lazard as a Managing Director in the Industrials Group, most recently serving as a Managing Director at Goldman Sachs.
He began his career in private equity real estate at Lehman Brothers. Paolo serves as a Board Member at Friends of Bocconi in New York and is an Associate Member at the Economic Club of New York. He holds an M.Sc.
in Finance and an undergraduate degree in Business Administration and Law from Bocconi University, both awarded cum laude, and has studied at NYU Stern.
