The unassuming and dogged Bundaberg high-flyer looks to be falling back to earth, as Swiss caution unpicks his deep tie to metals magnate Sanjeev Gupta.
Lex Greensill’s empire has unravelled with startling speed over the past week. Peter Braig
London | Lex Greensill, born and bred on Australia’s largest sweet potato farm, is a man of the soil. But as he cultivated a $6 billion financial empire this past decade, he’s ventured far from his Bundaberg roots: Wall Street, the City of London, a desk at Downing Street, concerts at Buckingham Palace, an office at Davos, and almost permanent residence in his globe-trotting private jet.
Now, still only 44 years old, the high-flyer looks in danger of falling back to earth.
