type privately held industry investment management headquarters california united states key people carson block number of employees 1 10 website http www.muddywatersresearch.com muddy waters research llc is a privately held due diligence based investment firm that conducts investigative research on public companies while also taking investment positions that reflect their research . 1 the firm has exposed accounting problems and fraud at several companies primarily in china but also in other countries in asia europe and north america . 2 the firm is best known for spotting fraud at sino forest corp a canadian listed chinese company whose stock fell 74 percent before it eventually filed for bankruptcy protection in march 2012 . 1 in 2014 canadian authorities outlined criminal fraud charges against sino forest and its executives . 3 prominent investors including maurice greenberg and john paulson lost significant amounts of money on sino forest . 4 history edit muddy waters was founded by carson block an american short seller . 5 the company is named after the chinese proverb muddy waters makes it easy to catch fish . 6 in january 2015 the firm raised an initial 100 million for its investment strategy . 1 block has been described by bloomberg news and others as one of the most successful bears in the market today . 7 in 2011 block was named as one of the 50 most influential people in finance and investing by bloomberg markets magazine . 8 before founding muddy waters block ran a shanghai based self storage company called love box storage . he also wrote the book doing business in china for dummies was an attorney at jones day in shanghai and an adjunct professor at chicago kent college of law . 9 in addition to sino forest muddy waters also reported on nq mobile a chinese based cybersecurity and mobile application company . in october 2013 muddy waters published research claiming nq mobile had fictitious customers and revenues . in april 2015 the co ceo of nq mobile omar khan stepped down after the stock had fallen nearly 84 percent . 10 he has also released reports on companies including noble group focus media olam international groupo casino orient paper china media express bank of the ozarks rino international bollore american tower corp. and teliasonera . 11 on his process for finding wrongdoing at companies block has been quoted saying it s a bit like solving a puzzle . you re really trying to find the pieces and how they match together to make a clear picture of just what the company is doing . 12 block appears frequently as a commentator on bloomberg television cnbc and the bbc . he has written op eds in the wall street journal financial times and the new york times on various topics related to improving corporate governance and market transparency . 13 14 15 see also edit gotham city research james chanos short selling list of united states companies sino forest olam international the big short references edit a b c short seller carson block launches hedge fund . reuters . 2016 01 25 . retrieved 2016 08 13 . profile . dummett ben 2014 09 02 . canada regulator lays out fraud case against sino forest . wall street journal . issn 0099 9660 . retrieved 2016 08 13 . anderlini jamil 2012 03 20 . new kid on the block . financial times . issn 0307 1766 . retrieved 2016 08 22 . http dealbook.nytimes.com 2014 09 10 short seller carson block says hes wary of alibaba about us . xie ye ; korby boris . carson block s once perfect short sale resume loses luster . bloomberg.com . retrieved 2016 08 17 . bloomberg markets most influential 50 . bloomberg.com . retrieved 2016 08 17 . special report the . reuters . 2011 08 05 . retrieved 2016 08 17 . carson block sounds like he s having a great day since the co ceo of one of his short targets stepped down . retrieved 2016 08 22 . research muddy waters research . www.muddywatersresearch.com . retrieved 2016 08 23 . here s how famous short seller carson block picks a takedown target . retrieved 2016 08 17 . carson block the man behind muddy waters . retrieved 2016 08 17 . block carson c. 2012 05 03 . china s auditing train wreck . wall street journal . issn 0099 9660 . retrieved 2016 08 18 . block carson 2014 03 06 . beware the false reassurance of corporate probes . financial times . issn 0307 1766 . retrieved 2016 08 18 . companies portal retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title muddy waters research & oldid 743945910 categories research and analysis firmsprivately held companies based in new york cityprivate equity portfolio companiesmarketing research companies of the united states navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 12 october 2016 at 04 47 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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