Matt Levine, Columnist

Unicorn Buybacks and Securities Law

Also Yahoo, Chicken Libor, correlation, quants, numéraires and goosicorns.

February 16, 2017 at 2:33 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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