Matt Levine, Columnist

Toys 'R' Us Might Raise Money on GoFundMe

Instead of giving investors a high junk-bond coupon, or even equity, they get factory tours and T-shirts.

March 27, 2018 at 6:00 AM 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.

Free t-shirts won't cut it.
Photographer: Patrick Gorski

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This post originally appeared in Money Stuff.

Toys "R" Us is planning to liquidate after failing to restructure in bankruptcy, weighed down by too much debt that it took on in a private-equity leveraged buyout in 2005. But this guy has a plan: