WeWork: Neumann redefines key man risk as IPO looms

WeWork’s pre-IPO financial disclosures have done little to quell disquiet over the company and its high-spending CEO.

Adam Neumann, co-founder and CEO of WeWork, is understood to have cashed out roughly $700 million from the company

Lending money to charismatic chief executives of valued clients has long been an important business line for the world’s investment banks, but it is a risky business.

For several US investment banks, this was made brutally apparent in 2018. The now notorious $1.6 billion margin loan they extended to former Steinhoff chairman Christo Wiese in 2016 blew up following the $17.4

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