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Antonio F. Weiss (born 1966) is head of investment banking for Lazard, an independent financial and asset management firm. From 2001 to 2009, Weiss was based in Paris, France where he served as a Vice Chairman of European Investment Banking for Lazard and subsequently global head of mergers and acquisitions.

Notable Deals
His deals include Reynolds American's acquisition of Lorillard (pending) ,the merger of Rockwood and Albemarle (pending), the acquisition of Berkshire Hathaway and 3G Capital of Heinz , the sale of D.E. Master Blenders to JAB and pending merger with Mondelēz coffee , the merger of Anheuser-Bush and Groupo Modelo , the acquisition by GlaxoSmithKline of Human Genome Sciences , Google's acquisition of Motorola Mobility , Kraft's acquisition of Cadbury , the KKR and KPE merger , InBev's acquisition of Anheuser-Busch , and the acquisitions by Nestle of Gerber and Novartis Medical Nutrition.

Affiliations
Weiss is a trustee of The Frick Collection and Publisher of literary quarterly The Paris Review, where he apprenticed to founder and editor George Plimpton. Weiss is also a trustee of the French-American Foundation and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Weiss attended Yale College and received his MBA at Harvard Business School, where he was a Baker Scholar and a Loeb Fellow in Finance.