Matt Levine, Columnist

JPMorgan's Mistake Was Not Hiring Chinese Princelings Fast Enough

Basically JPMorgan had a program, unfortunately named "Sons and Daughters," that was designed to prevent it from illegally hiring sons and daughters of Chinese officials in order to win business.

December 30, 2013 at 6:16 PM UTC

By Matt Levine

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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