{"id":11219,"date":"2009-08-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-10T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"ken-moelis-waits-for-bat-phone-to-ring-as-wall-street-rebounds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/08\/2009\/ken-moelis-waits-for-bat-phone-to-ring-as-wall-street-rebounds.html","title":{"rendered":"Ken Moelis Waits for Bat Phone to Ring as Wall Street Rebounds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211; The office of Kenneth Moelis in Los Angeles is a shrine to an investment banking career spent catering to the rich. Shelves and a table groan under the weight of dozens of Lucite deal tombstones featuring companies controlled by Carl Icahn, John Kluge, Donald Trump, Steve Wynn, Sam Zell and other business-section boldface names.             <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;My job is to be ready when the bat phone rings,&rdquo; says Moelis, 51, perched on the edge of a leather chair. He&rsquo;s referring to the hot line used in the 1960s-era Batman television series. Reinforcing the point, a framed architectural drawing of the fictional Wayne Manor that housed Batman&rsquo;s wealthy alter ego, Bruce Wayne, leans against a table.     <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/reuters\/UKFundsNews\/~4\/-rZ328K3iGM\" \/><br \/>  <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601109&#038;sid=aLnEZydRZL2Q\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Read Complete Article\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211; The office of Kenneth Moelis in Los Angeles is a shrine to an investment banking career spent catering to the rich. Shelves and a table groan under the weight of dozens of Lucite deal tombstones featuring companies controlled [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[7652,15121,15119,15118,15130,15124,3813,15122,1466,15126,1718,15116,15123,15125,1490,15129,15117,15127,15128,15120],"class_list":["post-11219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-1960s","tag-alter-ego","tag-architectural-drawing","tag-bat-phone","tag-batman","tag-business-section","tag-carl-icahn","tag-donald-trump","tag-dozens","tag-hot-line","tag-investment-banking","tag-john-kluge","tag-leather-chair","tag-phone-rings","tag-sam-zell","tag-shelves","tag-steve-wynn","tag-television-series","tag-tombstones","tag-wayne-manor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}