James Christopher Flowers (born 1957) is an American private equity investor and investment manager focused on the financial services industry.
Flowers retired from Goldman in 1998, one of fifteen partners to leave the bank prior to its 1998 initial public offering.
[18][19] After an unsuccessful attempt to arrange an acquisition of Sallie Mae in 2007, Flowers became deeply involved in the financial crisis of September 2008.
Flowers continued to advise Bank of America as it gave up on a Lehman acquisition and went on to acquire Merrill Lynch.
[13] Flowers's role in the crisis was portrayed by Michael O'Keefe in the 2011 HBO film Too Big to Fail.