Leonid Borissowitsch Roschezkin

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Leonid Borissowitsch Roschezkin (also: Rozhetskin ; Russian Леонид Борисович Рожецкин ; born  August 4, 1966 in Leningrad , Soviet Union ; † after 2008 ) was a Russian entrepreneur, lawyer and financier. He ran the production company L + E Productions in Los Angeles , USA.

biography

Roschezkin came from a Jewish family in the USSR. In 1980 he immigrated with his mother and siblings to the USA in New York, where he also went to high school. In 1987 Leonid Roschezkin graduated from Columbia University with a bachelor's degree in applied mathematics . In 1990 he graduated from Harvard Law School with a summa cum laude .

From 1990 to 1991 Leonid Roschezkin worked as a legal clerk for the federal judge Sephen S. Wilson in Los Angeles, California, USA. From 1992 to 1994 he was employed by the law firms Sullivan & Cromwell and White & Case. In 1992 Leonid Roschezkin went back to Russia to open his own law firm. He represented clients such as Credit Suisse , Morgan Grenfell , the Moscow Times and the International Finance Corporation (a division of the World Bank ).

In 1995 he switched to the investment industry and founded the investment bank Renaissance Capital.

In 1998 he left Renaissance Capital and co-founded the Risk Capital Bank LV Finance. His clients included financier George Soros and CNN founder Ted Turner . The company has invested in several successful startup companies, the most famous of which is the MegaFon Group, the third largest wireless operator in Russia. Leonid Roschezkin has since sold his shares in LV Finance.

From 2001 to 2005 Leonid Roschezkin was Vice Chairman of the Board of Norilsk Nickel , Russia's largest mining company. His areas of responsibility were transparency, external investments and corporate governance . Among other things, he invested in the Stillwater Mining Company (USA) and Gold Fields (South Africa). Later he continued to work on the supervisory board.

In addition, Leonid Roschezkin was also a shareholder in the free daily City AM in London. The newspaper mainly covers local and global business news and has approximately 100,000 readers across London.

In 2007 Roschezkin founded the film production company -L + E Productions together with Eric Eisner. The first film Hamlet 2 was released in 2008 and was awarded at the Sundance Film Festival in Utah, USA. The further exploitation rights have now been assigned to the publisher Focus Features for 10 million dollars . The films "Three Wolves" and "Electric Slide" should appear soon.

On March 16, 2008, he disappeared from his home in Jūrmala , Latvia . DNA tests on a man's corpse found in a forest near Tukums in August 2012 showed that the dead person was Roshezkin.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Will Stewart: Body of missing City AM tycoon 'found in woods' as his mother claims he was a victim of a KGB plot after revealing Putin corruption. Daily Mail, August 18, 2012, accessed March 3, 2015 .
  2. ↑ Alec Luhn: The body of missing Russian tycoon Leonid Rozhetskin has been found. But is he really dead? Independent, November 18, 2013, accessed March 3, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Roschezkin, Leonid Borissowitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rozhetskin, Leonid Borissowitsch; Roschezkin, Leonid; Rozhetskin, Leonid; Рожецкин, Леонид Борисович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian entrepreneur, lawyer and financier
DATE OF BIRTH 4th August 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Leningrad
DATE OF DEATH after 2008