Fortune’s 2011 Profile of James Koutoulas and MF Global

Fortune contributor Leah McGrath Goodman profiled James Koutoulas in “The boy wonder of the MF Global nightmare,” published December 2, 2011. The article described the immediate business and customer impact of MF Global’s bankruptcy and Koutoulas’s early advocacy.

What Fortune reported at the time

The profile said that $55 million of Typhon Capital’s then-reported $70 million under management was caught in the bankruptcy proceedings. It also described Koutoulas and fellow trader John Roe forming the Commodity Customer Coalition, which the article said grew to more than 8,000 members within weeks.

Goodman portrayed Koutoulas as a trained lawyer with limited courtroom experience who had become involved in a complex bankruptcy to seek recovery for customers. Those amounts and descriptions are historical, drawn from the 2011 article, and are not statements about Typhon’s present assets or Koutoulas’s current business activity.

Original coverage and later record

Read the Fortune story. A reprint is available from Roe Capital. In 2014, SIPC announced that the trustee’s final distribution would fully satisfy customer claims and credited the trustee and staff. Read that announcement.

See the James Koutoulas profile for additional background.