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In a rare move, Goldman is planning to create a “special purpose vehicle” to allow its high-net-worth clients to invest in Facebook, these people said. While the S.E.C. requires companies with more than 499 investors to disclose their financial results to the public, Goldman’s proposed special purpose vehicle may be able get around such a rule because it would be managed by Goldman and considered just one investor, even though it could conceivably be pooling investments from thousands of clients. It is unclear whether the S.E.C. will look favorably upon the arrangement.
~Wait, what? Does this sound eerily familiar to anyone else? Sorta like that other time they created a ‘special purpose’ financial instrument to get around ‘rules’ and other such nonsense…I seem to remember it costing about a Trillion dollars.
Goldman Invests in Facebook at $50 Billion Valuation - NYTimes.com
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