Stephen Hertz, Debevoise M&A Lawyer, Dies at 55 in Building Leap
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Stephen R. Hertz, a law partner in the mergers and acquisitions and private equity groups at New York-based Debevoise & Plimpton LLP, where he worked for almost three decades, has died. He was 55.
He died on May 16 after jumping from his 22nd-floor apartment opposite Central Park on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, according to police. His body was found in a tree in the courtyard of 455 Central Park West by the property manager.