NEW YORK, May 6, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Loews Corporation (NYSE: L) today announced that Jonathan Koplovitz has joined as Vice President, Corporate Development. 

Mr. Koplovitz has more than 20 years of investment banking experience.  Most recently, he served as a Senior Managing Director with Blackstone, where Mr. Koplovitz focused on originating and executing mergers & acquisitions and capital raising transactions for corporations, investors and governments.  Prior to joining Blackstone in 1996, he worked at Wolfensohn & Co and in the corporate finance department of Bear Stearns.

About Loews Corporation

Loews Corporation is a diversified company with three publicly-traded subsidiaries: CNA Financial Corporation (NYSE: CNA), Diamond Offshore Drilling, Inc. (NYSE: DO) and Boardwalk Pipeline Partners, LP (NYSE: BWP); and two wholly owned subsidiaries: HighMount Exploration & Production LLC and Loews Hotels & Resorts. For more information please visit www.loews.com

SOURCE Loews Corporation

Loews Corporation, Mary Skafidas, Vice President, Investor and Media Relations, 212-521-2788