It is hard to believe that we are now more than six months into our merger but I am pleased to report that the creation of the new firm has been very positively received by our clients and contacts who have welcomed the depth and breadth of our combined services and our renewed focus on delivery of excellent service and relationship building.

The Leveson Inquiry seems to me to be an example of the law of unintended consequences. When the Government set up the Inquiry, I imagine they thought this ought to be a win for them; standing up against the unscrupulous conduct of the media and seeking some quasi-judicial solution or framework for the future relations between the media and just...

I’m getting old. I know I am getting old; I’m not sure how it happened (ok that bit isn’t true, of course I know how it happened, I just don’t know when it happened) and this time I can’t even blame my kids. The reason I know I am getting old is that I have been left behind by IT. I don’t have a facebook page ...

This week I will be giving a talk at the first seminar we as a merged firm have given. My element of the seminar will consist of a section on the state of the corporate finance market. This has prompted the obvious question from a number of my colleagues – ‘what do you know about the state of the corporate finance market?’

At last our merger date has arrived. It has often felt a little strange over the last 3 months when the firms have been technically separate and distinct but knowing that as of 1 October, we will all be together. Now that we are one firm I don’t have to stop myself subconsciously from checking if it is in order for me to enter the non-clie...

My holiday seems a very long time ago now. We had two sun-kissed weeks at the coast at the beginning of July but I have almost forgotten them in the excitement which has reigned since we announced our merger with hlw a few days ago. Since our announcement I have spent a lot of time talking to clients, contacts and the media to explain more about...

The combined might of Twitter and a MP (surely it can’t be the first time the words “Twitter” and “MP”, or parts thereof, have been used in the same sentence), have done what the whole of the UK tabloid press have been unable to do and that is circumvent the law of privacy by naming someone who it is alleged has bee...

So the excitement, the colours, the history and the romance of last weekend is over. I am, of course, talking about my team’s glorious back to back promotion to the premier league. In fact, to be honest, watching the game live, knowing we only had to win to be promoted was absolute agony for 40 minutes after we went a goal up – just ...

This season’s must-have celebrity accessory appears to be the ‘super-injunction’. What intrigued me about this story has been the vociferous complaint from the media about the infringement of the freedom of the press which such injunctions cause (although given the recent stories about illegal phone tapping by certain sections ...

It is just as well that the Bribery Act 2010 has not yet come into force, or there would be two very troubled parents in our house. Recently, (and some people will have become bored with my complaints about this by now – I apologise if that is the case) we have been having trouble getting our 2 year old to sleep through the night. We thoug...