# Professor Roy Smith comments on Goldman Sachs' bridge loans to Discovery Communications and Amazon

1 Faculty News August 16, 2017 ![Bloomberg Quint logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/bloombergquint192x144_0.jpg?itok=PhjNVqwf)>

Excerpt from [Bloomberg Quint](https://www.bloombergquint.com/business/2017/08/16/goldman-builds-bridge-loan-business-with-amazon-discovery) -- "If you get it right, 'it’s very likely that you can hang onto three pieces of financing in one deal,' said [Roy Smith](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/roy-smith), a former Goldman Sachs partner who’s now a finance professor at New York University’s Stern School of Business. 'It’s a natural business and a natural place for them to be.' If you get it wrong, though, 'bridge loans can hand your head to you,' Smith said."

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