Matt Levine, Columnist

Good Bankers Know Lots of Things

Also weird CDS trades, fast payments and earnings-call comedy.

August 6, 2019 at 12:00 PM EDT

Matt Levine is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist. A former investment banker at Goldman Sachs, he was a mergers and acquisitions lawyer at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz; a clerk for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit; and an editor of Dealbreaker.

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Well here is how you don’t, from a 2017 anecdote about former second-in-command Gary Cohn:

And here is how you do, from Sonali Basak’s Bloomberg story this morning about how banks have been courting WeWork Cos. founder Adam Neumann:

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