Dragon NaturallySpeaking could transcribe continuous speach in the late 90&#x27;s at nearly full speed, it was amazing.  But then it disappeared, this explains it.<p>Moral of the story: don&#x27;t ever pay upfront for deal advice because interests aren&#x27;t aligned, light a fire under the due-diligencers by making it a % of the deal.<p>Not everyone at Goldman is evil I can vouch for that personally, but also not everyone there (or in M&amp;A &#x2F; wall st circles) doesn&#x27;t gradually acquire some degree of jaded entitlement or dispassionate, insular inhumanity either... that&#x27;s what a city and high earnings does to some people.  Plus, not knowing business, not having a strong relationship with an IB and not doing your own due-diligence are all contributing personal failures. Regardless, the other party spears to have committed fraud and Goldman seems it didn&#x27;t completely live up to its fiduciary duty in this instance.  The nails in these employees&#x27; coffins is not meeting with the press to express reasonable and legally-defensible answers, it makes them look guilty. (You&#x27;ve got to know when a blanket best-practice such as not speaking to the press during ongoing legal matters should be broken without compromising the case.)