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I'm a journalist at Reuters, where I focus on enterprise stories related to finance. I'm based in the Boston area.
I was previously based in New York for Reuters, where I started in 2015. Before that, I was an enterprise reporter for CNBC.com from 2013 to 2015, mostly covering hedge and private equity funds, and a senior staff writer at hedge fund publication Absolute Return from 2010 to 2013. I've also written for Business Insider, Fortune and BusinessWeek. I won a SABEW Best in Business award in 2014 for a profile of Africa investor Bruce Wrobel and was a finalist for a Loeb Award and the Reuters Journalists of the Year honors in 2016 for work on Platinum Partners.
I have a Master’s degree from Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism and a Bachelor’s degree from Georgetown’s School of Foreign Service.
Get in touch - story ideas always welcome: lawrence.delevingne [at] tr [dot] com or ldelevingne [at] protonmail [dot] com
Despite losing vast amounts of wealth tied to slavery, forebears of three U.S. lawmakers found ways to rebuild and pass down power, often by subjugating Black people.
Reuters explores what the ancestral connections to slavery mean to presidents, governors, members of Congress and Supreme Court justices -- and to Americans themselves.
Standing before half a dozen American flags during a press conference at his country club in Bedminster, New Jersey, President Donald Trump heralded what has become a central plank of his argument for re-election in November: his administration's handling of the economic fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic.
After a calamitous two week plunge in stocks as the coronavirus spread globally, Ricky Sandler called into a midday CNBC show on March 16 with a brash, bullish prediction.
On the morning of July 11, Paul Pittman was on a corn farm in Western Illinois, unaware his company had taken a devastating hit.
Canadian financier Newton Glassman has long told his private equity firm's clients that his big bet on casinos would yield a financial jackpot. Others haven't been so sure.
Guided by Mark Nordlicht, Platinum Partners has racked up returns that are the envy of the industry. But its winning strategy – lending to troubled companies – carries risks that many institutional investors would just as soon not take.
Donald Trump's presidential campaign is built on his business acumen. But some of the Wall Street funds that he has invested in have proven less successful, underperforming industry benchmarks in the last 15 months, according to a Reuters examination.
Bruce Wrobel's body was found by a friend on Dec. 10, 2013, at about 1 a.m. in a Mercedes-Benz CLK550. Police called to the West 20th Street scene-a quiet, tree-lined stretch of townhouses in Manhattan's affluent Chelsea neighborhood-discovered suicide notes to family and friends.
Leon Cooperman is addicted to investing. The hedge fund manager's stock-junkie lifestyle starts at 5:15 a.m. on weekdays, when he wakes up in the Short Hills, New Jersey, house he's lived in for 36 years. He then drives to the Manhattan offices of his $10.7 billion Omega Advisors, getting in by 6:30 a.m.
Bridgewater's rapid expansion led founder Ray Dalio to institute a bizarre culture of criticism. Can the world's largest hedge fund—which just had its best year—handle its own success?
When Phil Duff, Gil Caffray and Paul Ghaffari launched FrontPoint Partners in November 2000, they hoped to create a hedge fund firm so diversified it would be impervious to a single manager's blowup and so well-managed it could track every trade for undue risk.