Fishback Admits Sharing Confidential Greenlight Information

James Fishback, a former analyst at David Einhorn’s Greenlight Capital Inc., admitted sharing confidential information and agreed to pay the hedge fund’s costs to resolve a lawsuit it filed against him.

According to an agreement filed Wednesday in Manhattan federal court, Fishback, who worked at Greenlight between 2021 and 2023, said he violated the terms of his employment by sending to a personal email account summaries of the fund’s positions and strategies as well as a document showing its entire portfolio. He also said he had an undisclosed personal trading account that invested in the same instruments as Greenlight at around the same time.