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  1. Daniel Boden

    Commercial Awareness Discussion Thread

    In other news, Boohoo has added Oasis and Warehouse to its growing portfolio of brands, paying a little over £5 million and expects to grow its revenues by 25% this fiscal year, despite the uncertainty created by COVID-19. This goes to show the importance of having a flexible supply chain model...
  2. Daniel Boden

    Ask A Graduate Recruiter Anything!

    I think here I'd just be honest. I don't think firms are looking to catch you out, I think they're just genuinely interested so I'd just be honest about if you've interviewed anywhere else or having anything else coming up
  3. Daniel Boden

    Commercial Awareness Discussion Thread

    Afternoon all, I forgot to include this yesterday but there was an interesting feature in the FT about how, despite COVID-19, M&A activity in Spain has been very busy in the last few months e.g. the PE takeover of MasMovil, the merger of O2 & Virgin Media and Puig's purchase of a majority stake...
  4. Daniel Boden

    The Financial Conduct Authority

    I'm not sure if you mean the Competition Markets Authority or CMA? They would be the regulatory body responsible for stopping mergers and/or making sure a merger can go ahead if the merger doesn't unduly impact the market. I believe the FCA is only notified for the purposes of a change of...
  5. Daniel Boden

    Commercial Awareness Discussion Thread

    Agreed! It's really great at summarising key M&A deals and definitely makes what could be otherwise dull news more interesting!
  6. Daniel Boden

    Commercial Awareness Discussion Thread

    Also today Royalty Pharma had the largest IPO of the year thus far, selling $2.2 billion worth of shares, proving that many companies are still pursuing IPOs despite the market uncertainties caused by coronavirus. See more below: Royalty Pharma poised for biggest US listing of this year...
  7. Daniel Boden

    Vacation Scheme Preparation

    Thanks for the question! Yeah I completely get where you're coming from! For me, I am using the FT to focus on the 2/3 particular industries because it allows you to add those options to the 'myFT' feature if that makes sense? E.g. retail, private equity, mergers & acquisitions, IPOs... whatever...
  8. Daniel Boden

    Commercial Awareness Discussion Thread

    Following on from this, in today's 'Due Diligence' feature in the FT, the impact of Robinhood investing is laid bare by reference to Hertz which, although bankrupt, is planning on selling $1 billion worth of shares to investors to try and survive restructuring in a move which has left a lot of...
  9. Daniel Boden

    Commercial Awareness Discussion Thread

    Equally, Latham & Watkins, one of the leading private equity firms in the world has written a really interesting feature on the growing number of PE investments into the sports industry which is definitely worth a read: Scoring on Sports Deals...
  10. Daniel Boden

    Commercial Awareness Discussion Thread

    Afternoon all, in private equity news today, dealmaking is still occurring at a significant pace with KKR investing $650 million into the property arm of Vietnam's largest conglomerate, in a deal which is one of the largest ever private equity investments into the south-east Asian markets...
  11. Daniel Boden

    Commercial Awareness Discussion Thread

    Evening everyone! New week, new stories! The most interesting story I found today was from the FT's feature on 'supply-chain finance' which is what Softbank and Credit Suisse have been partaking in over the last few months - 'the arrangement has allowed SoftBank effectively to provide financial...
  12. Daniel Boden

    General Discussion Thread 2020-21

    I'd put the description into bullet points just to make it easier to read but also because bullet points are the accepted practice generally
  13. Daniel Boden

    LPC or SQE?

    Agree on the certainty point - I didn't fancy being a guinea pig in this transition to be honest
  14. Daniel Boden

    PGDL at BPP vs. GDL at ULaw

    You can do the law of organisations (basically company law) as an option at ULaw so if that's your main concern then I'd do it there for the cost factor tbh
  15. Daniel Boden

    General Discussion Thread 2020-21

    Yeah FF and CC are exceptions in this regard I'm 99% sure
  16. Daniel Boden

    General Discussion Thread 2020-21

    Yeah, I was always taught that if it's a singular noun ending in -s then you only need to add an apostrophe e.g. Chris' book. In that case, I would say Linklaters', Macfarlanes', Morgan Lewis', Paul Hastings' etc.
  17. Daniel Boden

    General Discussion Thread 2020-21

    Personally I wouldn't use them as it can come across as being too informal. However, abbreviating a firm's name, for example, Herbert Smith Freehills to HSF, is acceptable in my experience.
  18. Daniel Boden

    Leveraged finance transaction

    Thank you so much! Let us know how the Paul Hastings workshop goes :)
  19. Daniel Boden

    General Discussion Thread 2020-21

    That's correct yep
  20. Daniel Boden

    Leveraged finance transaction

    Thanks a lot my friend! Was a good revision exercise haha :)

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