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  1. Daniel Boden

    Hearing Back from Law Firms, Assessment Centres & Interview Tips - 2019 - 2020

    I had this issue when I was on a year abroad in Argentina and couldn't speak to international numbers through my Argentinian number as it was unbelievably expensive for me. What we ended up doing was doing a call over Whatsapp via Wifi, it worked fine and that's how I communicated with the firm...
  2. Daniel Boden

    Hearing Back from Law Firms, Assessment Centres & Interview Tips - 2019 - 2020

    I applied in November for a summer vac scheme and did the tests in early December and scored quite well in them but not to be this time around - good luck! :)
  3. Daniel Boden

    Hearing Back from Law Firms, Assessment Centres & Interview Tips - 2019 - 2020

    They're supposed to be but they only started looking at applications after the December open day. I'm also still waiting to hear so fingers crossed!
  4. Daniel Boden

    Case Study Interviews: Good things to know!!

    As in the minority shareholders will sell their shares at the same value as the majority shareholders' shares.
  5. Daniel Boden

    Case Study Interviews: Good things to know!!

    Yeah, Chris here has explained it well, this mainly happens in the more usual public and private M&A and is more common in venture capital acquisitions I believe. E.g. In 2019, Bristol-Myers Squibb Company and Celgene Corporation entered into a merger agreement under which Bristol-Myers Squibb...
  6. Daniel Boden

    Hearing Back from Law Firms, Assessment Centres & Interview Tips - 2019 - 2020

    Nothing too technical at all, but could be questions such as: - Why are you interested in Private Equity? - Can you explain to me what private equity is? - Can you explain to me what leverage is and why PE firms use it? All fairly basic and straightforward to be honest but the key is to...
  7. Daniel Boden

    Hearing Back from Law Firms, Assessment Centres & Interview Tips - 2019 - 2020

    Apply4Law is one of the most popular systems for law firms but I've never had an issue like that before!
  8. Daniel Boden

    Hearing Back from Law Firms, Assessment Centres & Interview Tips - 2019 - 2020

    Faye that's incredible news! Absolutely thrilled for you and what an amazing end to the week! I really hope you are out tonight and celebrating :D
  9. Daniel Boden

    Hearing Back from Law Firms, Assessment Centres & Interview Tips - 2019 - 2020

    Maybe if you could post your hints/tips in the interviews discussion thread? I'm sure a lot of people would really appreciate it :)
  10. Daniel Boden

    Case Study Interviews: Good things to know!!

    I'd add a couple here that we were made aware of on my Weil scheme: Drag-along rights A drag-along right is a provision that enables a majority shareholder to force a minority shareholder to join in the sale of a company. The majority owner doing the dragging must give the minority shareholder...
  11. Daniel Boden

    Hearing Back from Law Firms, Assessment Centres & Interview Tips - 2019 - 2020

    Rejection from Mayer Brown post online tests - not too disappointed as not convinced they're the right firm for me and rejections are inevitable but hope others got better news :)
  12. Daniel Boden

    Hearing Back from Law Firms, Assessment Centres & Interview Tips - 2019 - 2020

    Yeah I'm not too disappointed but that paragraph annoyed me too
  13. Daniel Boden

    Hearing Back from Law Firms, Assessment Centres & Interview Tips - 2019 - 2020

    I applied in November I think for a summer vac scheme
  14. Daniel Boden

    Hearing Back from Law Firms, Assessment Centres & Interview Tips - 2019 - 2020

    Yeah they only review after the deadline
  15. Daniel Boden

    Akin Gump VC Interview

    Hi Radu, I think it went well thanks! Could answer every question they gave me and had an interesting discussion with them so quietly optimistic :) It was very conversational and they basically just asked me about my application form, why I had done certain things on my CV and then asked why I...
  16. Daniel Boden

    Hearing Back from Law Firms, Assessment Centres & Interview Tips - 2019 - 2020

    I emailed Travers earlier this week and they're hoping to give us an update by the end of this week or next week!

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