Coming: DealBreaker's Guide to Holiday Parties

Posted by John Carney, Dec 12, 2006, 10:29am

party_crasher-22245.jpegPerhaps we forgot to mention this earlier, but DealBreaker is putting together a guide to holiday parties. The word on the street is that the nearly universal theme at holiday parties is: the return to decadence. And this clearly is something we need to cover.

We won't be able to get to all the parties, but we want information about all of them. The where, the who, the what and the when. We want to share this information with you. But you know how this works. It takes two to tango, and whole room to throw a ball. So email what you know to tips@dealbreaker.com. Soon we'll publish our list. (Which will also be useful to plot your own crashing strategies.) Thanks!

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Posted by Anon, Dec 12, 2006 12:15PM

You better get on with it - most of the parties have already happened or will be by Dec 18.

Posted by John Carney, Dec 12, 2006 1:11PM

Exactly! Come on, people. Send what you've got--invitations, information, reports from the party--to tips@dealbreaker.com!

Posted by .., Dec 12, 2006 1:56PM

During a drunken pre-Christmas party at Chase Securities in lower Manhattan in the mid-1990s, a group of us caught one of our fellow analysts, a Columbia U. grad, in the boss's office standing on the desk with his pants around his ankles pissing into a plastic trash can. When we confronted him he claimed he was having 'Nam flashbacks, which was odd as he was only in his early 20s.

Posted by E.V., Dec 12, 2006 3:12PM

The asset management division of Credit Suisse celebrated its simul-cuisitions of Warburg Pincus and DLJ in December of 2000 with a black tie affair at Chelsea Piers. I had just started in the business with a junior level analyst position - I skipped out on rent that month and squandered my salary on a knockout YSL dress for the occasion. large cap growth and tech paid the bills that year. Champagne flowed at every table, all night. A portfolio manager actually made out with his assistant on the dance floor. I got hit on egregiously at this and future parties...political incorrectness was definitely a fact of life - the fund guys referred to themselves as rock stars and acted accordingly.

Over the past 6 years, $80 billion in assets and 500 employees have walked out the door. The term "holiday" party was changed last year to "end of year" party because someone was apparently offended by the word Holiday. (Jehovas Witnesses, I think.) And in an hour, today, the annual party will actually be held in a CONFERENCE ROOM. I don't think there will be a carving station.

It's okay, though, because 75% of the guys who quit this place started their own hedge funds and I've been invited to crash three more parties. (Plus I still have the dress.)

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