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  1. Daniel Boden

    TCLA General Discussion Thread 2022-23

    Hey guys, As today's officially the start of my TC with Gibson Dunn which feels very surreal (I'm doing the PSC for 10 days before officially being in the office for my induction from August 30th), I thought I'd come on here and just say a quick thank you to @Jessica Booker and @Jaysen for all...
  2. Daniel Boden

    BPP LPC help. 3Days?

    Yes, there was an issue with one of the questions in the second Private Acquisitions paper. The pdf I had open only had 3 points we had to analyse but the one in the question box on the left-hand side had 4 points. From what I understand, a lot of people had this issue and we have all raised it...
  3. Daniel Boden

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2021-22 (#1)

    I'm afraid I can't say too much about the article interview but the general interview is very similar in that they want to get to know you and your CV/motivations for joining the firm/interests etc so if you prepare how you did for the first one then you won't go far wrong! Re the article...
  4. Daniel Boden

    BPP LPC help. 3Days?

    I'd imagine so yeah but don't worry too much about it, as long as you explain what you're doing then that's the main thing
  5. Daniel Boden

    BPP LPC help. 3Days?

    In the online lecture/talk re the exams we were told to leave our phones the other side of the room but if you have an issue then to literally look at the camera and speak to the microphone that you are getting up to get your phone because you are experiencing technical difficulties and then...
  6. Daniel Boden

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2021-22 (#1)

    The more traditional route of taking a private PE portfolio company (i.e. a company owned by the PE fund) public is through an IPO rather than a SPAC but they achieve the same goal more or less
  7. Daniel Boden

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2021-22 (#1)

    It can be both yeah, PE firms can do what are known as 'take privates' or public-to-private transactions where they buy a public company and make it a private company but these aren't as common as the perhaps more traditional private transactions.
  8. Daniel Boden

    Commercial Awareness Discussion Thread

    For an interview answer that's basically all you would need to say tbh as those are the three main ways of financing an acquisition, existing cash reserves (though this would be very rare as not many companies would have a stockpile of cash sufficient to fund an entire acquisition and it would...
  9. Daniel Boden

    I'm afraid every firm has a different definition of 'rolling basis' - your best bet would be to...

    I'm afraid every firm has a different definition of 'rolling basis' - your best bet would be to contact the W&C gradrec team directly. Hope you had a good holiday season too!
  10. Daniel Boden

    BPP LPC help. 3Days?

    Hi Jane, thank you for pointing us to this, just to clarify but I assume you mean a week "off" on 14 Feb for the wills, LR and Writing exams rather than Jan?
  11. Daniel Boden

    Let's hear about TCLA members' hobbies!

    Watch Drive to Survive on Netflix - it's a really interesting behind the scenes look at what F1 is all about :)
  12. Daniel Boden

    TCLA General Discussion Thread 2021-22 (#1)

    Given that the LPC alone will take 35-40 hours per week of your time I would really recommend avoiding paralegalling at the same time because I think that'd just become too much especially if you're in a busy department
  13. Daniel Boden

    BPP LPC help. 3Days?

    Yeah I haven't got it either don't worry
  14. Daniel Boden

    BPP LPC help. 3Days?

    Maybe the bit re PLR and Writing is the first week of teaching rather than the induction week?
  15. Daniel Boden

    BPP LPC help. 3Days?

    Yeah I never received that either - will chase up BPP!
  16. Daniel Boden

    Are GDL Course Notes useful?

    Ah fair enough that would make sense
  17. Daniel Boden

    BPP LPC help. 3Days?

    What do you mean by property book out of interest? Not sure I got one of those...
  18. Daniel Boden

    BPP LPC help. 3Days?

    Yeah I've got two induction sessions on the Monday which seem to be online and then an in-person introductory SGS on the Friday of that week
  19. Daniel Boden

    BPP LPC help. 3Days?

    As was I haha but anyway guess the main thing is that it's there now! :)
  20. Daniel Boden

    BPP LPC help. 3Days?

    My timetable has appeared!!! Unbelievable scenes Edit: weirdly not in Outlook 365 but in the VLE timetable lol

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