Goldman Sachs Wins $1bn Lawsuit With the Libyan Investment Authority
Goldman Sachs on Friday won a lawsuit filed against it by the Libyan Investment Authority (LIA), a government-managed sovereign wealth fund. The Libyan fund had sued the American investment bank for $1.2bn (£984m) over losses that it had incurred from derivatives purchased in 2008. The LIA had alleged that Goldman Sachs had wooed the fund’s officials with prostitutes, fine-dining in London’s …