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They grew a business where they issued junk debt. It was between corporate law and investmentbanking. And so I joined Goldman in there, it was a 12-person merger department. So I joined Goldman and their merger department, but said, I’d like to be your LBO guy. RITHOLTZ: Oh, really? KLINSKY: Yeah.
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In fact, that was pre -merger with Manny Hanny and Chemical, and JP Morgan, and et cetera. They really weren’t in the investmentbanking business, and they looked at the opportunity there and said, gee, we should really have a high yield business and a financing business. How did you get to Chase? KENCEL: Sure.
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