The Park Avenue home of the late Wall Street lawyer George C. Kern, Jr. is on the market for $8.65 million. Kern, who passed away last year, founded the mergers and acquisitions practice at the white shoe law firm Sullivan & Cromwell, and was involved in fending off the famous 1984 takeover attempt of Gulf Oil by T. Boone Pickens — which resulted in a $13.2 billion merger between Gulf Oil and Chevron.
The nine-room, 3,700-square-foot duplex, on the eighth floor of the 13-story 1912 building, has four bedrooms and three baths, along with a maid’s room. Set between 75th and 76th Streets, the home includes a foyer leading to a sitting area with a woodburning fireplace, a formal dining room with an additional woodburning fireplace and an extra-wide staircase. The listing broker, of no relation to the deceased, is Corcoran’s Deborah Kern.