Matt Levine, Columnist

Hedge-Fund Assaults and GSE Battles

Also merger litigation, fintech, Apple/Didi and hazing.

May 13, 2016 at 1:17 PM UTC

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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