Tip: If you are ever in a position similar to Sam Bankman-Fried and have been convicted of fraud in the amount of $8 billion, your strongest mitigation at sentencing probably isn’t:

“I was trying to help”

#SBF

It’s reassuring to know that last week’s experts on the inner workings of the royal family are now this week’s experts on geopolitical psyops.

When payment by card is instantaneous there should be no reason why a refund to a card takes 3-5 working days.

This sounds transformative but has little effect in practice. You never have only one client to serve each day. You will always have at least four or five live matters, and often across different clients and time zones. There is no work/life balance in M&A.

A new £5K British investment ISA you say?

Here are the last 10 year returns of the FTSE (14.53%) compared to the S&P500 (170.42%).

No thanks. #Budget2024

Teaching young lawyers how to run deals in 2023.

1. Magna Carta was NOT signed.
2. It did NOT prevent King John from ‘exploiting his power’
3. It did NOT establish that ‘everybody’ was subject to ‘equality under the law’.