  We present a construction of a non-hermitian fermionic Lagrangian which has a
second-order kinetic term. Despite the non-hermicity of the latter, the theory
is unitary and the perturbation theory that can be derived is equivalent to the
usual one derived from a first-order formalism. Having this in mind, the
construction of a second-order Standard Model allows a more compact description
of the theory. This work is based on [1, 2] and citations therein.
