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Made.com: The Rise, Fall & Acquisition
Made.com: The Rise, Fall & Acquisition. How did HSF, Eversheds Sutherland & Davis Polk advise on the deal? What is Made.Com? Made.Com is...
Neve Godfrey-Clark
Nov 18, 20223 min read
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The Twitter/Elon Musk Saga - "the bird is freed"
Details of the transaction: a masterclass in M&A - or not :/ On October 27th, Elon Musk closed his deal to acquire Twitter in proceedings...
Teofisto Consistente VI
Nov 11, 20224 min read
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'Patagonia: A Shift to Stakeholder Capitalism'
‘Earth is now our only shareholder,’ wrote Yvon Chouinard, the founder of Patagonia. Last month, Chouinard published an open letter...
Adam Badawy - Future Trainee at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Nov 4, 20225 min read
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The Reversal of the Energy Plan: An Energy Company Backed Fund asa Solution?
Keith Anderson, the chief executive of ScottishPower, has proposed that “all energy companies, including oil and gas producers, should...
Brigita Perednyte
Oct 28, 20223 min read
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What is a commercial lawyer, and what does an in- house commercial lawyer do?
The first question is what sort of work does a commercial lawyer do? The responsibilities of a commercial lawyer are to use business and...
Jessica Luu
Oct 21, 20223 min read
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Is it necessary for modern slavery legislation to include responsibilities for businesses?
Is it necessary for modern slavery legislation to include a responsibility for businesses to investigate their own supply chains? In...
Yi Kang Choo
Oct 14, 20227 min read
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Law Firms as a Business: Partnership and Renumeration Systems
Law Firms as a Business: Types of Partnership and Remuneration Systems, by Yi Kang Choo - Corporate Law Programme Coordinator. Being...
Yi Kang Choo
Oct 7, 20225 min read
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Introduction to Digital Assets
This article was adopted from Thomson Reuters Practical Law Practice Note: "Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT):...
Nomura
Sep 15, 20224 min read
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Basics of Secured Lending
Background One of the key parts of an investment bank is the ability to lend money to borrowers to facilitate their business activities,...
Nomura
Aug 4, 20227 min read
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Shareholder Activism – when shareholders take action
What is shareholder activism? When a company lists on a public market such as the London Stock Exchange or the NASDAQ, a huge range of...
Nomura
Jul 7, 20225 min read
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The buck stops here - Standards in Public Life: Ministerial verse Personal responsibility?
In recent weeks we have witnessed a raft of calls for ministers to resign over instances as far ranging as watching inappropriate...
Eric McKenzie
Jun 16, 20223 min read
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ESG - Sustainable Corporations
What makes a sustainable corporation? As regulatory pressures build against companies to improve their overall environmental, labor,...
Nomura
Jun 9, 20223 min read
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Making Sense of Supply Chains
News headlines have been rather apocalyptic recently. An impending third world war, an imminent food shortage disaster, the...
Adam Badawy - Future Trainee at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
May 25, 20225 min read
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Families, Unions, and Luxury: Porsche’s Landmark IPO
Volkswagen (‘VW'), the world’s second-largest carmaker by volume, has announced plans to float one of its most historic and luxurious...
Adam Badawy - Future Trainee at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
May 5, 20224 min read
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Looking Forward: The FCA Enforcement Trends Firms Can Expect in 2022
Executive Summary As the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) attempted to mitigate the effect of COVID-19 on consumers and the market,...
K&L Gates
Apr 8, 20226 min read
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Put your money where your mouth is: Sanctions, Solidarity, and Seizing assets
In the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the United States, the United Kingdom, the EU, Japan, Taiwan, New Zealand, Switzerland and...
Yshana Docherty - Future Trainee at Travers Smith
Mar 11, 20224 min read
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Funding a Company
A company generally consists of assets (Left Hand Side – LHS), and these assets have to be acquired with funding. The sources of funding...
Anonymous Alumni
Mar 4, 20223 min read
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An Introduction to Insurance Law
An insurance contract has a premium, in return for the premium, the insurer takes on the risk of loss/damage from an uncertain future...
Clyde & Co
Feb 23, 20224 min read
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Taming a Tiger: An Introduction to Venture Capital
Tiger Global, the $95bn venture capital technology fund, has already made a staggering 170 venture deals in start-ups this year, more...
Adam Badawy - Future Trainee at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Feb 22, 20223 min read
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A Wave of Shareholder Activism
What is shareholder activism? Shareholder activism refers to when proactive, agenda-driven investors drive change in a company through...
Yousun Cha - TC Offer Holder at Covington & Burling
Feb 2, 20224 min read
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