Tips for capital market transactions
When I started working on corporate finance and equity capital markets transactions as a junior lawyer, it was overwhelming. It was a constant rush to ensure comments for announcements, circulars and submission documents were sent to principal advisers in time for the announcements and submissions to be made. Lunch time …
“If you’re playing a solo game, you’ll always lose out to a team”
According to the book “The Start-up of You” by Reid Hoffman and Ben Casnocha, no matter how brilliant your mind or strategy, if you’re playing a solo game, you’ll always lose out to a team. It was mentioned in the context of building a network and a career but I …
For my lawyer friends
Over the course of my legal career, I have been fortunate to meet some colleagues who remain good friends even after we have left the firms where we first met. My former colleague, whom I first met more than 13 years ago during my pupillage, has been sending me birthday …
Sometimes I forget
Sometimes I forget that the other person working on a file with me is a beginner. I made the same wrong assumption I have observed in other senior lawyers. I assumed the person delegated with a task knew how to do it without checking with that person. I asked a …