Scott Bok

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Odd Lots · Scott Bok on How Bankers Spread the Gospel of Capitalism · 19 May 2025 podcast

But it's not easy to ferret through what's the real story on a quarter or an M and A deal or whatever news there is.

That I am happy to say is a mystery to me.

Certainly they never leak for me.

Part of the argument going back to why the so-called boutique investment banks did quite well for a long time.

I mean, part of the pitch we made was if you care about confidentiality, which every company does when they're kind of secretly hatching some deal, is that if you have a small team, small firm involved, you're less likely to have a leak than have a big team, big firm involved.

Makes sense.

And you know, we used to point out that, you know, if you imagine uh, you know, the biggest, the j the Goldman Sachs, the JP Morgan, like just how

How many compliance people would even have to hear about a specific deal before they got approval to lend the money, to give the advice and things like that.

And and so it's just a it's a numbers game in some way.

But look, it's illegal to to leak information on public deals, and it's surprising that somehow it happens.

And of and of course there have been insider trading cases as well, which is another form of abusing client information that you have.

Yeah.

Proud to say Green Hill, we never had an insider trading case.

So I'm very pleased with that.

Sure.

I'm not sure it's better.

I mean, I I feel that look, that story is true because I always felt like, especially in the firm's early years, I played a pretty central role even before I was the CEO because Bob Greenhill was the guy who loved to do deals and didn't really like to manage.

So I didn't feel like I could be away very long.

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