In the next few years, Mr. Esser, who became chief executive last May, orchestrated the sales of many older businesses and began branching into new areas.
In addition to the deals with BP, he orchestrated asset sales to Norway's StatoilHydro and Plains Exploration, all told raising close to $10 billion in cash and guarantees for Chesapeake.
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He orchestrated the sale of Palm to H.P. for $1.2 billion in April 2010.
In March, Paulson had orchestrated the sale of Bear Stearns to JPMorgan, financed with the loan of public money from the Federal Reserve.
After losing his job at the investment bank Donaldson , Lufkin & Jenrettewhen it was sold to Credit Suisse, he received a phone call from the office of Hamilton E. James, the executive who had orchestrated the sale, Mr. Dias said.
Since oil prices started to spiral upward in 2003, the Russian authorities have orchestrated the sale of assets or the renegotiation of deals between foreign oil giants and several Russian companies.
In 1992, he orchestrated the sale of the company, which he had renamed Gain Technology, to Sybase for $105 million.
In return for its loyalty NCFE and Poulsen individually were dragged into a nasty shareholder lawsuit in March 2000 that accused the company of financing Scott's "self-dealing" when Scott orchestrated the sale of assets to companies he personally controlled.
Getty, who died in 1976, left the bulk of his estate to the Getty Museum, but his children inherited billions through a trust with interests in Getty Oil; it was later split up when son Gordon Getty orchestrated the sale of Getty Oil to Texaco in the late 1980s.
