Connecticut is the seemingly unlikely venue for a legal effort by a German banking giant to collect a quarter-billion-dollar judgment obtained in a British court against a globe-trotting derivatives trader.
The matter revolves around investor Alexander Vik, who was described by a 2014 Forbes magazine article as “the most interesting man in the world,” a glib reference to the character in Dos Equis beer commercials. Except that Vik is real. His exploits include twice winning the Ivy League golf tournament while at Harvard, surviving an avalanche while heli-skiing in Canada, building a winery, opening a South American luxury hotel and owning a Manhattan art gallery.
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