Matt Levine, Columnist

Good Hedge Funds Had a Good Year

Also revenge, more revenge, and CoCos.

February 15, 2019 at 4:58 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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