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Transcript: Matt Levine

The Big Picture

But yeah, then I went to Wachtel afterward because it, it seemed like, because like, you know, you’re, you’re a law student and you don’t know what a law firm is. And then like you can spend your second year summer at a law firm. And so you end the summer knowing what a law firm is.

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Transcript: Eva Shang, CEO, Legalist

The Big Picture

Eva Shang : So at the time that we launched, there were already public companies that were doing litigation finance. One of our LPs likes to say, he likes to say that he invests in managers where it’s so time consuming and difficult to do what they’ve done, that no one in their right mind would do it.

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Transcript: Steven Klinsky

The Big Picture

And what was interesting was the first leveraged buyout of a public company happened when I was in graduate school. KKR took a stock exchange company called who Houdaille, private, and it was the first time there’ve been — RITHOLTZ: ’79 or something like that? It was between corporate law and investment banking.

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Transcript: David Roux, BayPine, Silver Lake Partners

The Big Picture

He was running the h and q investment bank, and then Roger was my next door neighbor and very good friends with Jim. It’s underappreciated for the strategic value that it plays in the economy, but you’re investing in the wrong companies at the wrong price. That was a very, very good investment.

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CDPQ Rocked by Major Indian Bribery Scheme

Pension Pulse

That has CDPQ's lawyers written all over it and I'm sure top law firms in Montreal and New York are all advising CDPQ on this matter. Spent most of his career, until then, on an investment banking desk. The SEC’s complaint against the three seeks permanent injunctions, civil penalties, and officer and director bars.