Talk:John Grayken

Additions to Philanthropy Section
Hello. I would like to request the following additions to the Philanthropy section of this article to reflect 2019 and 2022 gifts made by Grayken:
 * In February 2019, Grayken and his wife made a $10 million gift to create the Grayken Center for Treatment at South Shore Health, a non-profit, charitable health system in southeastern Massachusetts offering outpatient treatment for substance use disorders. The Center also serves pregnant and post-partum women facing behavioral health and substance use disorders. In October of that year, Grayken matched donations to the Hart Speech Foundation for the treatment of stutters and other speech impediments.
 * Grayken and his wife made a 2022 donation of £50 million to the Great Ormond Street Hospital, earmarking the funds to find new and better ways to treat childhood illnesses.

As per the COI guidelines, I am not editing the page to insert these details myself. I appreciate the community's help in making these updates. Thank you ChristinaforLoneStarFunds (talk) 19:36, 30 November 2022 (UTC)


 * I have made these edits and closed the edit request. Interested users should look to see if there are any reductions that can be made in this information. Go4thProsper (talk) 21:02, 30 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Thank you for your prompt action on this request. I appreciate your help and will be in touch if I make additional edit requests here if that's OK? ChristinaforLoneStarFunds (talk) 13:10, 1 December 2022 (UTC)

Career content additions
I am asking to make the following additions to this article:


 * In the lede, to include an updated and relevant net worth: Forbes magazine listed Grayken's wealth as totaling $6.5 billion and ranked him 386th in the list of World's Billionaires for 2021.
 * Expand the career section as follows:
 * Revise the first sentence to include more about Bass's business to read: Grayken first worked at Morgan Stanley, before joining the RMB Realty Group, the real estate investment firm of Texas billionaire Robert Bass.
 * Add the following content: Grayken served as the managing general director of The Brazos Fund L.P., which Bass created during the U.S. savings and loan crisis to buy troubled assets for sale by the Resolution Trust Corporation in 1988, after the RTC legitimized portfolio sales for disposing of distressed properties and mortgages in bulk. Bass contributed about 10% to Brazos Fund’s $250 million capital base, which enabled Grayken to pursue his first cross-border deal in Canada.
 * Grayken also created an affiliate to the Brazos Fund to manage the assets purchased by the fund called Brazos Advisors, L.L.C., which was renamed Hudson Advisors in 1997.
 * Grayken also led the Fund’s real estate investments in Canada. In 1996, Brazos bought a pool of non-performing assets from the National Bank of Canada, and, later the same year, Grayken began raising a second fund independent of Bass.
 * Add more to the paragraph about Lone Star Fund: That same year, Grayken said that Lone Star Opportunity Fund LP, the successor to Brazos Fund LP, would earmark "at least a third and up to a half" of its funds for investment in Canada. The Lone Star Opportunity Fund raised at least $450 million from investors by 1997. Since founding Lone Star, Grayken has invested in each of the 21 funds launched by Lone Star; he typically commits 5% or more.
 * Include additional detail: In 2011, as the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation began selling troubled assets, Grayken offered to buy the IRBC's entire €22 billion loan book, and ended up buying half of it for €4.8 billion in 2012 at a discount of more than 30%.

Thank you for your help in making improvements and updating the article. ChristinaforLoneStarFunds (talk) 12:35, 13 March 2023 (UTC)
 * I have ✅ the first two. I will return later to finish reviewing this request. HouseBlastertalk 19:10, 2 April 2023 (UTC)
 * I am having trouble verifying the rest of the edit request, but that is likely because I am paywalled. I will leave it for another reviewer to do. HouseBlastertalk 22:23, 2 April 2023 (UTC)
 * , I appreciate the time you took to review and implement the first two components. I have gone back in and included quotes from paywalled or off-line sources, in the hopes that this resolves the ability to verify the remaining requested changes. Would appreciate a second glance from you and can send full copies of the offline references via email if needed.ChristinaforLoneStarFunds (talk) 13:50, 3 April 2023 (UTC)
 * if you could send them to me via email, I would be happy to take a look at them! Best, HouseBlastertalk 17:04, 8 April 2023 (UTC)
 * , Thank you. I just sent you all the articles via the Wiki-email interface. It's a long message because I didn't know how to send an attachment. Appreciate your involvement and continued assistance. I'm available if you need anything else for implementation. ChristinaforLoneStarFunds (talk) 13:31, 10 April 2023 (UTC)

Hi! I have implemented all of the edit requests with the following exceptions: • He was the managing general partner of The Brazos Fund

• I realized that I do in fact have access to ProQuest, which contains archives of National Mortgage News. I was able to find the 2 January 1995 edition, but it does not contain the article you mention. Was there a different issue you had in mind? In the meantime, I have held off on adding the information about Brazos Advisors.

• I was unable to find a citation to support the assertion that The Brazos Fund was created for the purpose of buying troubled assets for sale by the RTC

• The Globe and Mail does not say that Grayken "led" the Canadian investments

• I felt the later the same year, Grayken began raising a second fund independent of Bass was unnecessary given the following paragraph describing that fund

• I omitted the detail about how much Lone Star raised by 1997, as it is not about Grayken himself.

• I was unable to verify that Grayken has invested in each of the 21 funds launched by Lone Star

• Source 17 says that Lone Star offered €22bn, not Grayken. Best, HouseBlastertalk 20:42, 30 April 2023 (UTC)