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Most of the projects that we do last anywhere between two weeks and a couple of months, three months, and each time there are different issues, it will be in a different geography, it can involve different teams. There will be different institutions within Financial Services. It might be a bank or an insurer or an asset manager. So every time there is a really steep learning curve to get up, and I really enjoy that bit of the job; once I’ve got up that bit of the learning curve, I almost look for a new learning curve to get up. And because of that turnover of two weeks to a couple of months, it means that I keep fresh in my job and always really enjoy it.

It’s so exciting working on transactions, particularly in Financial Services at the moment, where we find ourselves in the credit crunch. Maybe an example of that is when it first started, say 18 months ago, with Northern Rock having problems. And we were lucky enough to be working for Olivant, who were looking to acquire Northern Rock at the time, and that didn’t end up working out; but it was a great thing to be involved with, really because a lot of the time we were understanding the issues with Northern Rock, the wider economy and the credit crisis, a couple of days before they were being on the front page of the FT, and that felt like we were really doing something at the cutting edge. We knew what was going on there, and it was reported a couple of days later, so that was great, and made me feel really good about what I do.