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Nathaniel Philip Rothschild

January 18, 2023

Nathaniel Philip Victor James Rothschild (born 12 July 1971) is a British-born financier who settled in Switzerland, and a member of the Rothschild family. He is the chairman of Volex plc, a UK-listed manufacturer. He has a wide range of international business interests.

The Honourable

Nathaniel Rothschild
Born (1971-07-12) 12 July 1971 (age 51)
United Kingdom
CitizenshipCanada[1][2]
Montenegro
Alma mater
Spouses
  • Annabelle Neilson
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    (m. 1994; div. 1997)​
  • Loretta Basey
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    (m. 2016)​
Parents
FamilyRothschild

He is the heir apparent to the title of Baron Rothschild, held by his father Jacob Rothschild, 4th Baron Rothschild. Rothschild is also a naturalised Montenegrin citizen.[3]

Early life and education

Nathaniel Philip Rothschild is the youngest of four children and only son and heir apparent of Jacob Rothschild, 4th Baron Rothschild, and Serena Mary Dunn. His mother was from a Christian background, while his father is Jewish (Rothschild's paternal grandfather was born into a Jewish family, while Rothschild's paternal grandmother had converted to Judaism upon marriage).[4] His maternal grandparents were Sybil Fane, Countess of Westmorland (born Lady Mary Sybil St. Clair-Erskine, daughter of James St Clair-Erskine, 5th Earl of Rosslyn) and Sir Philip Gordon Dunn, 2nd Baronet, whose father was the Canadian financier and tycoon Sir James Dunn.

He was educated at Colet Court (in the same year as former Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne), Eton College and Wadham College, Oxford, where he read history, gaining an upper second. Rothschild was a member of the Bullingdon Club as an undergraduate, at the same time as Osborne.[5] He completed an MSc degree in Addiction Studies at the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London in 2013.[6] In 2018, he was elected as a foundation fellow of Wadham College, Oxford.[7]

Career

After graduating, Rothschild joined fund manager Lazard's, then went to work at Gleacher, the corporate finance firm now owned by NatWest. In 2000, he occupied a variety of positions, and holds a 50%, in NR Atticus, Atticus Management and Atticus Capital, a hedge fund, which in year 2000 controlled funds approaching £312m.[8]

Rothschild is the former chairman of Vivarte, a pan-European retailer and owner of the Kookai clothing brand. Appointed in 2000 following NR Atticus's acquisition of a 32.9% stake in what was widely regarded as the first hostile proxy fight in France, he led the group through its successful restructuring and subsequent sale to PAI Partners, a French private equity firm in 2004.[9]

He became an alternate director of RIT Capital Partners plc in March 2000, and a full non-executive director in 2004 until 2010 when he stepped down from the RIT board. He remains a substantial direct shareholder of RIT and a 35% beneficial shareholder of Five Arrows Limited, a Rothschild holding company whose major asset is shares in RIT.

Rothschild is a former 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 was also a member of the International Advisory Board of the Barrick Gold Corporation until 2013.[10][11]

Investments

In 2000, The Observer wrote that, in addition to Rothschild's then declared inheritance of £500 million, his actual inheritance "hidden in a series of trusts in Switzerland is rumoured to be worth £40bn".[12] Via NR Investments Ltd., his principal investment company, Rothschild was a cornerstone investor in the United Company RUSAL initial public offering in January 2010. At the same time he bought $40 million of Glencore bonds convertible into shares upon an IPO.[13]

NR Investments is also the largest shareholder (26.5% as of 2009) of Volex, a Manchester-based electrical cable maker. Furthermore, Rothschild has an interest in various property developments in Eastern Europe (Montenegro, Romania and Ukraine).

In July 2010, Vallar Plc, a Jersey-incorporated investment vehicle Rothschild founded, raised £707.2 million in an Initial public offering on the London Stock Exchange. Vallar is led by Rothschild and James Campbell, a former Anglo American PLC coal and base metals chief.

In November 2010, Vallar announced it was buying stakes for $3bn in two listed Indonesia thermal coal (used for power stations) producers for a combination of cash and new Vallar shares, with a view to combining them to create the largest exporter of thermal coal to China, India, and the other emerging economies of Asia. The transaction closed as planned on 8 April 2011[14] and Vallar plc was renamed Bumi plc in the same month.[15] The deal was handled in a joint venture with the Bakrie family (43%) and Rosan Roeslani (25%).[16] In September 2012 the investigation of possible financial irregularities in its Indonesian arm resulted in a 14% fall in its share price.[17] and the much-delayed financial results for 2012 showed a $200 million black hole.[18] It was also reported in 2013 that Rosan Roeslani, a former director of the company, had stolen $173 million from it.[19] In December 2013 the company changed its name to Asia Resource Minerals.[20] In June 2015, following a series of disputes with his co-investors, Rothschild abandoned his investment in the company, selling his 17.2 per cent stake to Coal Energy Ventures.[21]

In June 2011, Rothschild and Tony Hayward, the former chief executive of BP plc, listed a successor vehicle to Vallar called Vallares (LSE:VLRS) on the London Stock Exchange, raising $2.2 billion. Essentially, this was identical in every respect to the first vehicle, which was metals and mining focused, except that the new entity would acquire oil & gas assets.[22] In September 2011, Vallares announced a 50/50 all stock merger with Turkish Energy Champion Genel Energy, valued at $4.2 billion.[23]

Personal life

In 1994, he married socialite and model Annabelle Neilson; they divorced in 1997.[24] She died in July 2018.

In August 2016, Rothschild married Loretta Basey, a former model who had been featured on page 3 of UK tabloid newspaper The Sun, in Switzerland. Rothschild lived for a time in New York before settling in Switzerland in 2000, and according to the Swiss business magazine Bilanz, he is a resident of Klosters in Graubünden. In 2015, his four-storey townhouse in the West Village was put up for sale for $17.5 million.[25]

The racehorse Nathaniel, winner of the 2011 King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes, was bred and owned by Rothschild's mother and is named after him.

Controversies

In October 2008, he was the subject of much press speculation when it was revealed that Labour politician Peter Mandelson and the Russian aluminium tycoon Oleg Deripaska (RUSAL) had met when staying on a yacht moored near Corfu, in order to attend a party held by Rothschild.[26] After speculation that this might constitute a conflict of interest for Mandelson, Rothschild wrote a letter to The Times alleging that another guest was Conservative Shadow-Chancellor George Osborne, who, Rothschild said, illicitly tried to solicit a donation from the Russian for his party.[27][28]

Rothschild has been linked to the son of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, Saif al-Islam Gaddafi.[29]

In February 2012 he lost his libel case with the Daily Mail who had accused him of being a "puppet master" in reporting about his foreign trips with Peter Mandelson.[30]

References

  1. ^ "'My winners are ahead of my losers and that's what business is about': Nat Rothschild on money, modesty and feeling a bit Swiss". Evening Standard. 24 October 2014. He is "closest" to his mother, Serena Mary Dunn, a Canadian. It says something of this allegiance that he carries a Canadian passport. "I'm not a British citizen. I think of myself as Swiss — ultimately I will get Swiss citizenship."
  2. ^ "#1153 Nathaniel Rothschild". Forbes. 1 March 2012. CITIZENSHIP Canada
  3. ^ "Nat Rothschild Gains Montenegrin Passport". Balkan Insight. 24 September 2013. Retrieved 15 January 2021.
  4. ^ Cowles, V. (1973). The Rothschilds: A Family of Fortune. Knopf. ISBN 978-0-394-48773-1. Retrieved 13 April 2015.
  5. ^ "The Tories and the oligarch: key characters". The Times. London. 21 October 2008. Retrieved 21 October 2008.
  6. ^ "'My winners are ahead of my losers and that's what business is". Evening Standard. 24 October 2014. Retrieved 7 February 2016.
  7. ^ "Fellows' list" (PDF). Wadham Gazette. Retrieved 29 May 2019.
  8. ^ O'Sullivan, Edited by Tom (11 March 2000). "The young elite 1-10". Retrieved 25 May 2017 – via The Guardian. {{cite web}}: |first= has generic name (help)
  9. ^ "PAI launches €1.24bn bid for Vivarte". efinancialnews.com. Retrieved 13 April 2015.
  10. ^ "exv99w1". www.sec.gov. Retrieved 11 October 2018.
  11. ^ Ebrahimi, Helia (2013). "Nat Rothschild to leave board of Barrick Gold". Daily Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 11 October 2018.
  12. ^ The young elite 1-10, Tom O'Sullivan, The Observer, Sunday 12 March 2000
  13. ^ Casey, Simon (6 January 2010). "Glencore May Expand to Rival BHP, Rothschild Says (Update1)". Bloomberg.com. Bloomberg LP. Retrieved 20 May 2015.
  14. ^ "Vallar Completes Acquiring 75% Berau, Recapital Says". bloomberg.com. 11 April 2011.
  15. ^ Riseborough, Jesse (10 June 2011). "Vallar to Buy Bumi Minerals for $2.1 Billion to Add Deposits". bloomberg.com. Retrieved 30 July 2011.
  16. ^ Deutsch, Anthony; Thompson, Christopher (15 January 2011). "King Nat's mines". www.ft.com. Retrieved 31 October 2022.
  17. ^ "Bumi investigates alleged financial irregularities". The Daily Telegraph. 24 September 2012. Retrieved 7 October 2012.
  18. ^ Josephine Moulds (31 May 2013). "Bumi reveals $200m black hole in financial results". The Guardian.
  19. ^ "Rosan Roeslani emerges as surprise buyer of Inter Milan". The Daily Telegraph (UK). 15 October 2013. Retrieved 6 June 2015.
  20. ^ "Curtain comes down on Bumi after shareholders vote for split". The Daily Telegraph. 17 December 2013. Retrieved 13 August 2014.
  21. ^ Silvia Antonioli (8 June 2015). "Rothschild to sell out of ARMS as Asian bidder closes in on deal". Reuters. Retrieved 9 June 2015.
  22. ^ "Hayward's Vallares Raises $2.2 Billion in IPO". bloomberg.com. 17 June 2011. Retrieved 17 June 2011.
  23. ^ Lundgren, Kari (7 September 2011). "Hayward's Vallares to Acquire Iraq Fields in $2.1 Billion Genel Merger". bloomberg.com. Retrieved 7 September 2011.
  24. ^ The London Telegraph: "The extrovert lifestyle of the former Mrs Nathaniel Rothschild" By Lucy Cockcroft 23 October 2008
  25. ^ Sheffield, Hazel (15 April 2015). "This is what Nat Rothschild's New York bachelor pad looks like - and you can buy it for $17.5m". The Independent. Retrieved 31 October 2022.
  26. ^ Goodley, Simon (6 May 2011). "Nat Rothschild leaps from the Bullingdon to join billionaires' club". The Guardian. London.
  27. ^ "Nathaniel Rothschild Letter to the Editor". The Times. London. 21 October 2008. Retrieved 19 May 2010.
  28. ^ Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska & his links to British politicians, BBC Newsnight, 19 March 2018
  29. ^ Walker, Tim (25 November 2008). "Now Nat Rothschild hobnobs with Gaddafi jnr – The Daily Telegraph". The Telegraph. London. Retrieved 13 April 2015.
  30. ^ Walker, Peter (10 February 2012). "Nat Rothschild loses libel case against Daily Mail over Mandelson trip". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077.

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Nathaniel Philip Victor James Rothschild born 12 July 1971 is a British born financier who settled in Switzerland and a member of the Rothschild family He is the chairman of Volex plc a UK listed manufacturer He has a wide range of international business interests The HonourableNathaniel RothschildBorn 1971 07 12 12 July 1971 age 51 United KingdomCitizenshipCanada 1 2 MontenegroAlma materWadham College OxfordKing s College LondonSpousesAnnabelle Neilson m 1994 div 1997 wbr Loretta Basey m 2016 wbr ParentsJacob Rothschild 4th Baron RothschildSerena Dunn RothschildFamilyRothschildHe is the heir apparent to the title of Baron Rothschild held by his father Jacob Rothschild 4th Baron Rothschild Rothschild is also a naturalised Montenegrin citizen 3 Contents 1 Early life and education 2 Career 3 Investments 4 Personal life 5 Controversies 6 References 7 External linksEarly life and education EditNathaniel Philip Rothschild is the youngest of four children and only son and heir apparent of Jacob Rothschild 4th Baron Rothschild and Serena Mary Dunn His mother was from a Christian background while his father is Jewish Rothschild s paternal grandfather was born into a Jewish family while Rothschild s paternal grandmother had converted to Judaism upon marriage 4 His maternal grandparents were Sybil Fane Countess of Westmorland born Lady Mary Sybil St Clair Erskine daughter of James St Clair Erskine 5th Earl of Rosslyn and Sir Philip Gordon Dunn 2nd Baronet whose father was the Canadian financier and tycoon Sir James Dunn He was educated at Colet Court in the same year as former Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne Eton College and Wadham College Oxford where he read history gaining an upper second Rothschild was a member of the Bullingdon Club as an undergraduate at the same time as Osborne 5 He completed an MSc degree in Addiction Studies at the Institute of Psychiatry King s College London in 2013 6 In 2018 he was elected as a foundation fellow of Wadham College Oxford 7 Career EditAfter graduating Rothschild joined fund manager Lazard s then went to work at Gleacher the corporate finance firm now owned by NatWest In 2000 he occupied a variety of positions and holds a 50 in NR Atticus Atticus Management and Atticus Capital a hedge fund which in year 2000 controlled funds approaching 312m 8 Rothschild is the former chairman of Vivarte a pan European retailer and owner of the Kookai clothing brand Appointed in 2000 following NR Atticus s acquisition of a 32 9 stake in what was widely regarded as the first hostile proxy fight in France he led the group through its successful restructuring and subsequent sale to PAI Partners a French private equity firm in 2004 9 He became an alternate director of RIT Capital Partners plc in March 2000 and a full non executive director in 2004 until 2010 when he stepped down from the RIT board He remains a substantial direct shareholder of RIT and a 35 beneficial shareholder of Five Arrows Limited a Rothschild holding company whose major asset is shares in RIT Rothschild is a former 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 was also a member of the International Advisory Board of the Barrick Gold Corporation until 2013 10 11 Investments EditIn 2000 The Observer wrote that in addition to Rothschild s then declared inheritance of 500 million his actual inheritance hidden in a series of trusts in Switzerland is rumoured to be worth 40bn 12 Via NR Investments Ltd his principal investment company Rothschild was a cornerstone investor in the United Company RUSAL initial public offering in January 2010 At the same time he bought 40 million of Glencore bonds convertible into shares upon an IPO 13 NR Investments is also the largest shareholder 26 5 as of 2009 of Volex a Manchester based electrical cable maker Furthermore Rothschild has an interest in various property developments in Eastern Europe Montenegro Romania and Ukraine In July 2010 Vallar Plc a Jersey incorporated investment vehicle Rothschild founded raised 707 2 million in an Initial public offering on the London Stock Exchange Vallar is led by Rothschild and James Campbell a former Anglo American PLC coal and base metals chief In November 2010 Vallar announced it was buying stakes for 3bn in two listed Indonesia thermal coal used for power stations producers for a combination of cash and new Vallar shares with a view to combining them to create the largest exporter of thermal coal to China India and the other emerging economies of Asia The transaction closed as planned on 8 April 2011 14 and Vallar plc was renamed Bumi plc in the same month 15 The deal was handled in a joint venture with the Bakrie family 43 and Rosan Roeslani 25 16 In September 2012 the investigation of possible financial irregularities in its Indonesian arm resulted in a 14 fall in its share price 17 and the much delayed financial results for 2012 showed a 200 million black hole 18 It was also reported in 2013 that Rosan Roeslani a former director of the company had stolen 173 million from it 19 In December 2013 the company changed its name to Asia Resource Minerals 20 In June 2015 following a series of disputes with his co investors Rothschild abandoned his investment in the company selling his 17 2 per cent stake to Coal Energy Ventures 21 In June 2011 Rothschild and Tony Hayward the former chief executive of BP plc listed a successor vehicle to Vallar called Vallares LSE VLRS on the London Stock Exchange raising 2 2 billion Essentially this was identical in every respect to the first vehicle which was metals and mining focused except that the new entity would acquire oil amp gas assets 22 In September 2011 Vallares announced a 50 50 all stock merger with Turkish Energy Champion Genel Energy valued at 4 2 billion 23 Personal life EditIn 1994 he married socialite and model Annabelle Neilson they divorced in 1997 24 She died in July 2018 In August 2016 Rothschild married Loretta Basey a former model who had been featured on page 3 of UK tabloid newspaper The Sun in Switzerland Rothschild lived for a time in New York before settling in Switzerland in 2000 and according to the Swiss business magazine Bilanz he is a resident of Klosters in Graubunden In 2015 his four storey townhouse in the West Village was put up for sale for 17 5 million 25 The racehorse Nathaniel winner of the 2011 King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes was bred and owned by Rothschild s mother and is named after him Controversies EditIn October 2008 he was the subject of much press speculation when it was revealed that Labour politician Peter Mandelson and the Russian aluminium tycoon Oleg Deripaska RUSAL had met when staying on a yacht moored near Corfu in order to attend a party held by Rothschild 26 After speculation that this might constitute a conflict of interest for Mandelson Rothschild wrote a letter to The Times alleging that another guest was Conservative Shadow Chancellor George Osborne who Rothschild said illicitly tried to solicit a donation from the Russian for his party 27 28 Rothschild has been linked to the son of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi Saif al Islam Gaddafi 29 In February 2012 he lost his libel case with the Daily Mail who had accused him of being a puppet master in reporting about his foreign trips with Peter Mandelson 30 References Edit My winners are ahead of my losers and that s what business is about Nat Rothschild on money modesty and feeling a bit Swiss Evening Standard 24 October 2014 He is closest to his mother Serena Mary Dunn a Canadian It says something of this allegiance that he carries a Canadian passport I m not a British citizen I think of myself as Swiss ultimately I will get Swiss citizenship 1153 Nathaniel Rothschild Forbes 1 March 2012 CITIZENSHIP Canada Nat Rothschild Gains Montenegrin Passport Balkan Insight 24 September 2013 Retrieved 15 January 2021 Cowles V 1973 The Rothschilds A Family of Fortune Knopf ISBN 978 0 394 48773 1 Retrieved 13 April 2015 The Tories and the oligarch key characters The Times London 21 October 2008 Retrieved 21 October 2008 My winners are ahead of my losers and that s what business is Evening Standard 24 October 2014 Retrieved 7 February 2016 Fellows list PDF Wadham Gazette Retrieved 29 May 2019 O Sullivan Edited by Tom 11 March 2000 The young elite 1 10 Retrieved 25 May 2017 via The Guardian a href Template Cite web html title Template Cite web cite web a first has generic name help PAI launches 1 24bn bid for Vivarte efinancialnews com Retrieved 13 April 2015 exv99w1 www sec gov Retrieved 11 October 2018 Ebrahimi Helia 2013 Nat Rothschild to leave board of Barrick Gold Daily Telegraph ISSN 0307 1235 Retrieved 11 October 2018 The young elite 1 10 Tom O Sullivan The Observer Sunday 12 March 2000 Casey Simon 6 January 2010 Glencore May Expand to Rival BHP Rothschild Says Update1 Bloomberg com Bloomberg LP Retrieved 20 May 2015 Vallar Completes Acquiring 75 Berau Recapital Says bloomberg com 11 April 2011 Riseborough Jesse 10 June 2011 Vallar to Buy Bumi Minerals for 2 1 Billion to Add Deposits bloomberg com Retrieved 30 July 2011 Deutsch Anthony Thompson Christopher 15 January 2011 King Nat s mines www ft com Retrieved 31 October 2022 Bumi investigates alleged financial irregularities The Daily Telegraph 24 September 2012 Retrieved 7 October 2012 Josephine Moulds 31 May 2013 Bumi reveals 200m black hole in financial results The Guardian Rosan Roeslani emerges as surprise buyer of Inter Milan The Daily Telegraph UK 15 October 2013 Retrieved 6 June 2015 Curtain comes down on Bumi after shareholders vote for split The Daily Telegraph 17 December 2013 Retrieved 13 August 2014 Silvia Antonioli 8 June 2015 Rothschild to sell out of ARMS as Asian bidder closes in on deal Reuters Retrieved 9 June 2015 Hayward s Vallares Raises 2 2 Billion in IPO bloomberg com 17 June 2011 Retrieved 17 June 2011 Lundgren Kari 7 September 2011 Hayward s Vallares to Acquire Iraq Fields in 2 1 Billion Genel Merger bloomberg com Retrieved 7 September 2011 The London Telegraph The extrovert lifestyle of the former Mrs Nathaniel Rothschild By Lucy Cockcroft 23 October 2008 Sheffield Hazel 15 April 2015 This is what Nat Rothschild s New York bachelor pad looks like and you can buy it for 17 5m The Independent Retrieved 31 October 2022 Goodley Simon 6 May 2011 Nat Rothschild leaps from the Bullingdon to join billionaires club The Guardian London Nathaniel Rothschild Letter to the Editor The Times London 21 October 2008 Retrieved 19 May 2010 Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska amp his links to British politicians BBC Newsnight 19 March 2018 Walker Tim 25 November 2008 Now Nat Rothschild hobnobs with Gaddafi jnr The Daily Telegraph The Telegraph London Retrieved 13 April 2015 Walker Peter 10 February 2012 Nat Rothschild loses libel case against Daily Mail over Mandelson trip The 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