“The saga of the Heinz call option insider trade, first profiled here, and the Goldman trail, also first observed here (“Does GS stand for Goldman Sachs one wonders”), just got even more fun as revelations that it was none other than a client of Goldman’s Private Wealth group out of Zurich that hit the buy key on those thousands in call options one day ahead of the announcement. From Reuters: “A Goldman Sachs private wealth client is the holder of the Swiss account at the center of an investigation into insider trading in H.J. Heinz Co options, regulators said in a court filing late Wednesday.” Alas, and as before, the question of who leaked the inside information to this Goldman client still remains unanswered.
If you enjoy the content at iBankCoin, please follow us on TwitterThe U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filed a lawsuit against unknown traders last week, alleging they used a Goldman account in Zurich to buy an unusual amount of Heinz options the day before the ketchup maker agreed to sell itself for $23 billion.
In an SEC application to freeze the defendants’ assets, dated February 15 but filed with the court Wednesday, staff attorney David Brown said the commission had been told by Goldman that “the account holder is a Goldman Sachs Private Wealth client in Switzerland.” …”
