Liz Hoffman is Semafor's Business & Finance editor and authors the Semafor Business newsletter. She was formerly a senior reporter at The Wall Street Journal, where she covered corporate dealmaking, banking and the world of high finance. She is the author of Crash Landing: The Inside Story of How the World’s Biggest Companies Survived an Economy on the Brink, a kaleidoscopic account of the financial carnage of the pandemic. She joined the Journal in 2013 covering mergers and acquisitions and broke news on some of the biggest corporate tie-ups of all time.