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27 November 2009 - Press Briefing

Asia head nets $12m from Goldman stock sale

Michael Evans, who heads Goldman Sachs in Asia, sold 70,000 of the bank’s shares, just above 9% of his holdings, worth $12m (€8m) on Monday and Tuesday, a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission revealed, according to a report in the Financial Times.

The move comes after Evans’ European counterpart Michael Sherwood offloaded over $27m of stock in the investment bank less than a fortnight ago.

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