Deal Books
Over 900 deal books, from 1925-1986, are included in the Lehman Brothers Collection. Investment firms like Lehman Brothers created these large bound volumes in the process of conducting various business transactions including mergers, initial and common stock offerings, and debentures. The volumes contain agreements between the sellers and underwriters, prospectuses and other literature advertising an offer, filings of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, and correspondence. The companies represented in the deal books are extremely diverse, from small companies that survived only a few years to Fortune 500 companies that still exist today.The collection testifies to the broad reach Lehman Brothers had in both established and emerging enterprises during the course of its 158-year history.