The Telegraph – NewSmith founders Michael Marks and Stephen Zimmerman had put in a full morning’s work hedging funds in their Berkeley Square base. But disaster struck on the way out to a well-earned Mayfair lunch when the pair got trapped in the office lift for more than an hour.
To the great amusement of their hedge fund colleagues, Diary hears it was a case of “I’m a former Merrill Lynch celebrity, get me out of here!” as the pair blustered away to security through the intercom about taking legal action and not paying the rent.
