The Firm Analyst
By Adnan Shafi
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This Firm Analyst is a podcast hosted by Adnan Shafi, an incoming Trainee Solicitor at Foot Anstey LLP. The goal of the podcast is to demystify the world of commercial law and help aspiring and current Trainee Solicitors build their commercial awareness.
Every week, Adnan discusses important developments in the economy while analysing how those developments affect law firms in the UK and beyond. His approach also includes directing listeners to key sources of information that are often overlooked by many.
Tune in every Sunday to start your journey of becoming a firm analyst!
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ASK Session 2: Sector Breakdown - Islamic Finance
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Apr 19, 2026 |
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S17EP3: Iran War: One Month On - Inflation, CMA Investigations and Emerging Markets Debt Capital Markets Review
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Apr 05, 2026 |
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S17EP2: Developments in the Middle East - Analysing the Global Impact
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Mar 08, 2026 |
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S17EP1: Debtor-Friendly Clauses Creep into US Leveraged Finance Documents and AI Lights Up Global Capital Markets ... Again
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Feb 15, 2026 |
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ASK Session 1: Real Estate Finance Case Study
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Jan 25, 2026 |
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S16EP3: Debt Capital Markets in Overdrive; Post-Brexit EU-UK Relations; and Mining Mega Mergers
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Jan 11, 2026 |
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S16EP2: 2025 Commercial Awareness Review
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Dec 30, 2025 |
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S16EP1: Apollo’s $745m ABF Deal with Virgin Atlantic; Inside the 2025 Autumn Budget; and Bank of England to Ease Capital Rules
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Dec 08, 2025 |
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S16EP1: The AI Boom and How Law Firms Are Helping Accelerate It
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Nov 13, 2025 |
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S15EP4: Emerging Market Bonds and Sukuk Takeoff; EA - The Largest Leveraged Buyout in History; and UBS and Cantor Fitzgerald Renegotiate Hedge Fund Unit Purchase
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Oct 19, 2025 |
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S15EP3: Apollo to Raise $10 Billion Using Savvy Structured Finance Techniques; The Fall of Tricolor Holdings and First Brand - Explained; and UK to Rescue Jaguar Land Rover with £1.5bn Loan Guarantee
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Sep 29, 2025 |
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Saudi Aramco Raises $3bn from Islamic Bonds; Pharmaceutical Giant Merck Abandons £1bn UK Investment; and France Credit Rating Downgraded to A+
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Sep 14, 2025 |
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S15EP1: Private Credit Ventures Deeper into Investment Grade; Autumn Agony from Potential Tax Hikes for Banks and Property Owners; and Mastercard Inks $100m/yr F1 Sponsorship Agreement with McLaren
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Aug 31, 2025 |
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S14EP4: BlackStone's £1.5 Billion Mortgage Backed Securitisation; Lenders Avoid the Worst in Motor Finance Supreme Court Ruling; and Bank of England Split As Base Rate Drops to 4%
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Aug 10, 2025 |
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S14EP3: Heathrow to Detail Multibillion Pound Third Runway Plans; Companies Buy Crypto to Boost Valuations; and PE Funds Turn to Continuation Funds to Keep the Liquidity Tap Running
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Jul 27, 2025 |
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S14EP2: The Legal Reason for Wimbledon's 11 PM Curfew; Upward Only Rent Reviews to Be Banned; and Unpacking CityFibre's £2.3bn Refinancing Deal
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Jul 14, 2025 |
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S14EP1: EDF Taps Apollo for £4.5bn Hinkley Point C Loan Facility; Law Firms Look to Private Equity Sponsors for Investment; and Domestic Equities Lose Ground with UK Pension Funds
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Jun 22, 2025 |
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S13EP4: Trade Deals - Hope around the Corner?
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May 11, 2025 |
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S13EP3: M&S Suffers Cyberattack; Investors Flee to Swiss Franc; Plans for 29-Storey Battersea Tower Rejected
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Apr 28, 2025 |
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S13EP2: US Tariffs - The Markets Can Take Pain, But Not Uncertainty
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Apr 13, 2025 |
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S13EP1: Legal Reflections on the Heathrow Shutdown; Barclays' "Caterpillar" Strategy; and Challenges for Sustainable Finance & Investment
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Mar 23, 2025 |
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S12EP4 - Say Goodbye to Skype...; UK Small Companies Trading at Global Discounts; and Stamp Duty Changes Trigger Deal Rush
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Mar 01, 2025 |
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S12EP3: Activist Investor Builds £3.8bn Stake in BP; Competitive Leisure Market Faces Oversupply; and Creditors Face Off in Thames Water Restructuring
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Feb 17, 2025 |
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S12EP2 - How DeepSeek and Tariffs Are Shaking up the Markets... and More
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Feb 02, 2025 |
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S12EP1: 2025 - Year of Volatility? UK Outlook, TikTok Ban & More
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Jan 19, 2025 |
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S11EP4: A Review of Market Reactions to the US Elections
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Nov 10, 2024 |
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S11EP3: Autumn Budget - As Bad As We Thought?; Zilch Expands Consumer Loan Securitisation Facility to £150mn; BlackRock Bets on Private Credit with HPS Approach
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Nov 03, 2024 |
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S11EP2: UK Puts Rare Minerals in Focus; Schroders to Launch First of A Kind UK Fund; Monzo Millionaires - How Startups Keep Investors and Employees Happy
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Oct 27, 2024 |
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S11EP1: Labour Budget Unpacked; 76 Storey Tower to Dominate Manchester Skyline; and Space X's "Catch" - A New Era for Space Law?
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Oct 20, 2024 |
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S10EP4: Unique Tools for Researching Law Firms (Part 2) - Government Work, Book Recommendations & General Tips
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Oct 06, 2024 |
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S10EP3: REA Makes Fourth Offer for RightMove; Why Do Firms Rebrand?; and Standard Chartered Takes on Investors in Test Case
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Sep 29, 2024 |
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S10EP2: HSBC Faces Property Loan Defaults in HongKong; Investment Platforms Unite to Form Trade Association; and Next Could Pay £30m in Damages in Equal Pay Case
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Sep 22, 2024 |
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S10EP1: CMA Casts Doubt on Vodafone x Three Merger; Notting Hill Home Sells for £21m; and How Low Can You Go? - Reviewing Rate Cuts and the UK's October Budget
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Sep 15, 2024 |
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S9EP4: Unique Tools for Researching Law Firms (Part 1) - M&A/PE and Debt Finance
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Sep 08, 2024 |
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S9EP3: Mayhem Unfolds in the Global Equities Markets; Seven Law Firms Advise on £5.4bn Takeover Bid for Hargreaves Lansdown; and Saudi Arabia to Introduce New Investment Laws to Attract Investors
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Aug 11, 2024 |
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S9EP2: Is an AI Bubble Forming?; HSBC, Barclays & Shell Announce Share Buybacks; and Rachel Reeves Set to Raise Tax Rates to Plug £22bn Fiscal Hole
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Aug 04, 2024 |
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S9EP1: Labour Announces £7.3bn National Wealth Fund; Revolut Taps Linklaters for Banking License Approval; and BDB Pitmans to Rebrand to International Powerhouse: 'Broadfield'
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Jul 28, 2024 |
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S8EP4: A Revival of the UK's IPO Market?; Carpetright to File for Administration; and Metro Bank Eyes Mortgage Portfolio Sale to Boost Profitability
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Jul 15, 2024 |
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S8EP3: Paul Weiss Is Not Testing the Waters...It Is Laying Down the Roots: A Brief Introduction for Aspiring Solicitors
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Jul 08, 2024 |
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S8EP2: The Age of $20m Partner Pay Packages; Is the £100m+ City of London RE Market Dead?; and Light at the End of the Tunnel for PE
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Jun 30, 2024 |
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S8EP1: Market Temperature Check: Systemic Risk in PE? And What Election Year Means for Clients
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Jun 23, 2024 |
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S7EP4: 48 Laws of Restructuring & Insolvency
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Apr 22, 2024 |
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S7EP3: FCA Calls Out "Finfluencers"; A&O and Others Reappointed to Santander Panel and Trowers to Open Office in Singapore
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Apr 14, 2024 |
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S7EP2: Thames Water Going Under Water? Why Gold Hit a Recent High, and the 'Great Maturity Wall'
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Apr 07, 2024 |
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S7EP1: The 21st Century Law Firm: Navigating AI and Culture (Slaughter and May Innovation Competition)
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Mar 25, 2024 |
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S6EP4: Sorry...Who's SONIA? Dissecting A Facility Agreement
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Mar 11, 2024 |
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S5EP3: M&S Taps Dentons in Planning Dispute, M&A Disputes to Increase, Says BRG and How Mischon is Teaming Up with NVIDIA to Help Start-ups
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Mar 03, 2024 |
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S6EP2: "Everything Went to Plan"- A Chat with an Islamic Finance Solicitor, Aziz Deen
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Feb 25, 2024 |
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S6EP1: Currys Rejects Takeover Bid, UK Falls into Recession and TUI to Delist from London Stock Exchange
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Feb 19, 2024 |
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S5EP4: An Introduction to International Loan Finance
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Feb 05, 2024 |
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S5EP3: It's the CMA...Again, BlackRock Bets on Infrastructure and What's the 'Beef' Stalling UK-Canada Trade Talks?
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Jan 28, 2024 |
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S5EP2: Labour–UK Is Open for Business, Consumer Spending Takes A Worrying Decline & Will Incoming Legislation Save Litigation Funding?
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Jan 22, 2024 |
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S5EP1: Linklaters Swipes Shearman's Global Head, Post Office Compensation and Corporation Tax Questions and How International Businesses Manage Unforeseen Risk
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Jan 14, 2024 |
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S4EP4:A Year in Review–The Future of Law Firms in The UK
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Dec 31, 2023 |
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S4EP4: A Year in Review–ESG & Regulation Edition
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Dec 31, 2023 |
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S4EP4: A Year in Review–Competition & Corporate Edition
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Dec 31, 2023 |
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S4EP4: A Year in Review–Banking & Finance Edition
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Dec 24, 2023 |
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S4EP3: UK Stock Market Revival; London Metal Exchange Faces The Court of Appeal and Whether Safer Banks Means A Weaker Climate
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Dec 18, 2023 |
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S4EP2: KPMG UK Swiss Merger, Microsoft v CMA – Round Two & Private Credit Catches BoE's Eye
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Dec 10, 2023 |
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S4EP1: Employment Law Special with Kevin Poulter: Employment Partner - Freeths
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Dec 03, 2023 |
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S3EP4: AI: Reinventing The Law Firm as We Know It
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Nov 19, 2023 |
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S3EP3: Kirkland Raids Linklaters and Simpson Thacher, Britishvolt On The Brink and FCA To Crack Down On Greenwashing
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Nov 12, 2023 |
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S3EP2: Redundancy Contagion Spreads, PIF Issues Inaugural Islamic Bond and M&G To Close £585m UK Fund
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Oct 22, 2023 |
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S3EP1: the war for ESG talent, FCA warns against 146+ Crypto firms & Wagamama's parent company receives Apollo bid
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Oct 15, 2023 |
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S2EP4: Should Law Firms List On A Stock Exchange? A Deep Dive into DWF and Ince Group
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Oct 02, 2023 |
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S2EP3: DWF vs BCLP on Tesco's Legal Panel, NAV Loans—The PE Deal Paramedic and Chelsea Taps Ares in $500 mn Raise
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Sep 24, 2023 |
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S2EP2: Banks Take A Dip Into Private Credit, Oil Prices Edge Up and UK Offshore Wind Programmes At Risk of Stalling.
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Sep 17, 2023 |
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S2EP1: Property Prices Dip, CMS Considers Redundancies and US-China Tensions Rise
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Sep 10, 2023 |
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Episode 4: Battle For The USA–A&O Shearman Merger Case Study
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Aug 27, 2023 |
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Episode 3: Paul Weiss swipes four from Kirkland, IPOs begin to slow and more.
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Aug 20, 2023 |
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Episode 2: Dentons splits from its China arm, Wilko goes into administration and more
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Aug 13, 2023 |
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Episode 1: The "End" of Litigation Funding, Flexible Working Reforms and More.
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Aug 06, 2023 |