All Episodes

ASK Session 2: Sector Breakdown - Islamic Finance

S17EP3: Iran War: One Month On - Inflation, CMA Investigations and Emerging Markets Debt Capital Markets Review

S17EP2: Developments in the Middle East - Analysing the Global Impact

S17EP1: Debtor-Friendly Clauses Creep into US Leveraged Finance Documents and AI Lights Up Global Capital Markets ... Again

ASK Session 1: Real Estate Finance Case Study

S16EP3: Debt Capital Markets in Overdrive; Post-Brexit EU-UK Relations; and Mining Mega Mergers

S16EP2: 2025 Commercial Awareness Review

S16EP1: Apollo’s $745m ABF Deal with Virgin Atlantic; Inside the 2025 Autumn Budget; and Bank of England to Ease Capital Rules

S16EP1: The AI Boom and How Law Firms Are Helping Accelerate It

S15EP4: Emerging Market Bonds and Sukuk Takeoff; EA - The Largest Leveraged Buyout in History; and UBS and Cantor Fitzgerald Renegotiate Hedge Fund Unit Purchase

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

Saudi Aramco Raises $3bn from Islamic Bonds; Pharmaceutical Giant Merck Abandons £1bn UK Investment; and France Credit Rating Downgraded to A+

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

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%

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

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

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

S13EP4: Trade Deals - Hope around the Corner?

S13EP3: M&S Suffers Cyberattack; Investors Flee to Swiss Franc; Plans for 29-Storey Battersea Tower Rejected

S13EP2: US Tariffs - The Markets Can Take Pain, But Not Uncertainty

S13EP1: Legal Reflections on the Heathrow Shutdown; Barclays' "Caterpillar" Strategy; and Challenges for Sustainable Finance & Investment

S12EP4 - Say Goodbye to Skype...; UK Small Companies Trading at Global Discounts; and Stamp Duty Changes Trigger Deal Rush

S12EP3: Activist Investor Builds £3.8bn Stake in BP; Competitive Leisure Market Faces Oversupply; and Creditors Face Off in Thames Water Restructuring

S12EP2 - How DeepSeek and Tariffs Are Shaking up the Markets... and More

S12EP1: 2025 - Year of Volatility? UK Outlook, TikTok Ban & More

S11EP4: A Review of Market Reactions to the US Elections

S11EP3: Autumn Budget - As Bad As We Thought?; Zilch Expands Consumer Loan Securitisation Facility to £150mn; BlackRock Bets on Private Credit with HPS Approach

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

S11EP1: Labour Budget Unpacked; 76 Storey Tower to Dominate Manchester Skyline; and Space X's "Catch" - A New Era for Space Law?

S10EP4: Unique Tools for Researching Law Firms (Part 2) - Government Work, Book Recommendations & General Tips

S10EP3: REA Makes Fourth Offer for RightMove; Why Do Firms Rebrand?; and Standard Chartered Takes on Investors in Test Case

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

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

S9EP4: Unique Tools for Researching Law Firms (Part 1) - M&A/PE and Debt Finance

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

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

S9EP1: Labour Announces £7.3bn National Wealth Fund; Revolut Taps Linklaters for Banking License Approval; and BDB Pitmans to Rebrand to International Powerhouse: 'Broadfield'

S8EP4: A Revival of the UK's IPO Market?; Carpetright to File for Administration; and Metro Bank Eyes Mortgage Portfolio Sale to Boost Profitability

S8EP3: Paul Weiss Is Not Testing the Waters...It Is Laying Down the Roots: A Brief Introduction for Aspiring Solicitors

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

S8EP1: Market Temperature Check: Systemic Risk in PE? And What Election Year Means for Clients

S7EP4: 48 Laws of Restructuring & Insolvency

S7EP3: FCA Calls Out "Finfluencers"; A&O and Others Reappointed to Santander Panel and Trowers to Open Office in Singapore

S7EP2: Thames Water Going Under Water? Why Gold Hit a Recent High, and the 'Great Maturity Wall'

S7EP1: The 21st Century Law Firm: Navigating AI and Culture (Slaughter and May Innovation Competition)

S6EP4: Sorry...Who's SONIA? Dissecting A Facility Agreement

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

S6EP2: "Everything Went to Plan"- A Chat with an Islamic Finance Solicitor, Aziz Deen

S6EP1: Currys Rejects Takeover Bid, UK Falls into Recession and TUI to Delist from London Stock Exchange

S5EP4: An Introduction to International Loan Finance

S5EP3: It's the CMA...Again, BlackRock Bets on Infrastructure and What's the 'Beef' Stalling UK-Canada Trade Talks?

S5EP2: Labour–UK Is Open for Business, Consumer Spending Takes A Worrying Decline & Will Incoming Legislation Save Litigation Funding?

S5EP1: Linklaters Swipes Shearman's Global Head, Post Office Compensation and Corporation Tax Questions and How International Businesses Manage Unforeseen Risk

S4EP4:A Year in Review–The Future of Law Firms in The UK

S4EP4: A Year in Review–ESG & Regulation Edition

S4EP4: A Year in Review–Competition & Corporate Edition

S4EP4: A Year in Review–Banking & Finance Edition

S4EP3: UK Stock Market Revival; London Metal Exchange Faces The Court of Appeal and Whether Safer Banks Means A Weaker Climate

S4EP2: KPMG UK Swiss Merger, Microsoft v CMA – Round Two & Private Credit Catches BoE's Eye

S4EP1: Employment Law Special with Kevin Poulter: Employment Partner - Freeths

S3EP4: AI: Reinventing The Law Firm as We Know It

S3EP3: Kirkland Raids Linklaters and Simpson Thacher, Britishvolt On The Brink and FCA To Crack Down On Greenwashing

S3EP2: Redundancy Contagion Spreads, PIF Issues Inaugural Islamic Bond and M&G To Close £585m UK Fund

S3EP1: the war for ESG talent, FCA warns against 146+ Crypto firms & Wagamama's parent company receives Apollo bid

S2EP4: Should Law Firms List On A Stock Exchange? A Deep Dive into DWF and Ince Group

S2EP3: DWF vs BCLP on Tesco's Legal Panel, NAV Loans—The PE Deal Paramedic and Chelsea Taps Ares in $500 mn Raise

S2EP2: Banks Take A Dip Into Private Credit, Oil Prices Edge Up and UK Offshore Wind Programmes At Risk of Stalling.

S2EP1: Property Prices Dip, CMS Considers Redundancies and US-China Tensions Rise

Episode 4: Battle For The USA–A&O Shearman Merger Case Study

Episode 3: Paul Weiss swipes four from Kirkland, IPOs begin to slow and more.

Episode 2: Dentons splits from its China arm, Wilko goes into administration and more

Episode 1: The "End" of Litigation Funding, Flexible Working Reforms and More.