A partner at McKinsey, the world’s largest consulting company, has been charged with illegal insider trading in advance of a Goldman Sachs deal with finance and technology lender GreenSky, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced on Wednesday. In a press release, the SEC said Puneet Dikshit, a partner at the global management consulting firm, was trading illegally in advance of a corporate acquisition by one of the firm’s clients in September. The SEC’s complaint, filed in federal district court in Manhattan, alleges that Dikshit had learned “highly confidential information” pertaining to the Goldman Sachs Group Inc.’s impending acquisition of the consumer loan fintech platform, GreenSky Inc., ahead of its Sept. 15, 2021 acquisition announcement. GreenSky is a publicly traded financial technology company that provides technology to banks and merchants to make loans to consumers for home improvement, solar, health care, and other purposes. The complaint alleges that Dikshit, 40, from New York, used this knowledge to buy call …