Matt Levine, Columnist

McKinsey Partner’s Insider Trading Strategy Was Bad

Also Musk brothers, conglomerates and Mom’s Basement.

November 10, 2021 at 6:08 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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He also faces criminal charges. The “global management consulting firm” is of course McKinsey & Co., which Goldman hired to help with due diligence and then integration for its acquisition of GreenSky. Dikshit was a partner — a partner! — on the assignment, and, once Goldman formally hired McKinsey to help with the integration — making clear that a deal was imminent — he allegedly did this: