Nathaniel Philip Rothschild

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The Honourable Nathaniel Philip Victor James Rothschild, known as Nat, (born 12 July 1971) is a British financier who is Co-Chairman of hedge fund Atticus Capital and a scion of the prominent Rothschild banking family of England.

Contents 1 Early life 2 Career 3 Personal life 4 References 5 External links

[edit] Early life

Nathaniel Philip Rothschild is the youngest of four children and only son of Jacob Rothschild, 4th Baron Rothschild and Serena Mary Dunn, whose grandfather was the Canadian financier and industrialist, Sir James Dunn. As the son of a baron, he is entitled to be styled "The Honourable".^[1] He was educated at Colet Court (in the same year as George Osborne), Eton College and Wadham College, Oxford. Rothschild was a member of the Bullingdon Club as an undergraduate, at the same time as George Osborne now the Conservative Party shadow chancellor.^[2]

[edit] Career

Rothschild began his career in 1994 at Lazard Brothers Asset Management in London, before joining Gleacher Partners, the New York-based mergers and acquisitions (M&A) advisory firm founded by Eric Gleacher, former head of M&A at Morgan Stanley and Lehman Brothers.

Rothschild is the co-chairman of Atticus Capital, an international investment management firm established in 1995, that has offices in New York and London. He is also a director of RIT Capital Partners plc.

Rothschild is a member of the Belfer Center's International Council at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government and the International Advisory Council of the Brookings Institution. He is also a member of the International Advisory Board of the Barrick Gold Corporation. He was nominated as a "Young Global Leader" by the World Economic Forum in 2005.^{[citation needed]}

In the Sunday Times Rich List 2009 ranking of the wealthiest people in the UK he was placed 156th with an estimated fortune of £330million.^[3] Although it is reported that this could be a grossly underestimated figure.

[edit] Personal life

In 1992 whilst an undergraduate student at Oxford, he met actress Annabelle Neilson on a holiday in India. They married in 1995, separating in 1997. The couple had no children. Rothschild has lived in New York since 1998.

In October 2008, he was the subject of much press speculation; it was revealed that Labour politician Peter Mandelson and Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska had met when staying on a yacht moored near Corfu, in order to attend a party held by Rothschild.^[4] After speculation that this might constitute a conflict of interest for Mandelson, Rothschild wrote a letter to the The Times, alleging that another guest was Conservative Shadow-Chancellor George Osborne, who, Rothschild claimed, illicitly tried to solicit a donation from the Russian for his party.^[5]

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• New York Times profile, 2007