Matt Levine, Columnist

Merger Lies and Ferragamo Bribes

Also spreadsheets, databases, FOIA and all of the recurring worries in one place. Even swap spreads.

June 9, 2016 at 9:18 AM 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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M&A etiquette.

Guy Hands's lawsuit against Citigroup continued in London yesterday with my favorite sort of cross-examination, the kind where Citi's lawyers asked Hands if he was lying, and he said no, and they asked if he was sure. "Guy Hands Testifies He Did Not Make Up Claims Against Citigroup," is the headline here. In a TV murder drama they'd ask him a few more times, but louder, and he'd break down and confess.

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