Carson Block - Muddy water research

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Carson Block is a short-seller and the founder of Muddy Waters Research.^[1] Block is known for documenting and alleging fraudulent accounting practices in publicly traded Chinese companies.^[2]

Early life and career[edit]

Block grew up in Summit, New Jersey, and holds a law degree from Chicago-Kent College of Law.^[3]

Mr Block went to work with his father, a period he describes as “very embittering” as he was “lied to by a parade of management” of internet companies. He quit equity analysis for law school, later moving to Shanghai before leaving law and setting up the self-storage business in 2007.^[4]

In 2011, Block was ranked as a 50 Most Influential Thinker by Bloomberg Markets.^[5]

In September 2017, Block initiated a private lawsuit against Equifax, accusing the latter of neglecting to safeguard his personally identifiable information.^[6] He appears in the documentary The China Hustle, outlining his research into Securities fraud of Chinese companies through Muddy Waters.^[7]