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<blockquote data-quote="Jacob Miller" data-source="post: 51762" data-attributes="member: 5063"><p>In terms of approaching commercial-orientated interviews, I typically had 2 fairly full, fairly well-developed case studies that I would discuss. Typically, I'd look for them to both be quite different- for example, one transactional (e.g. a big merger or acquisition) and one contentious/ regulatory (for example a major court case, insolvency or regulatory change), and I would want both of them to be on the more complex side of things too rather than super simple. Sometimes I'd use something more political but I tended to err away from these as they run the risk of catching the interviewer's politics the wrong way. </p><p></p><p>Things that were super relevant during my assessment cycle, for perspective, included: </p><p>- Carrillion collapse</p><p>- Thomas Cook collapse</p><p>- Tiffany LVMH merger and subsequent dispute</p><p>- Google/ Amazon/ Starbucks UK tax issues</p><p>- Brexit regulatory climate</p><p>- US China trade wars</p><p></p><p>I would prep 2 for any given AC- research all hell out of them, read from a big variety of sources and develop a really good knowledge of the framework of the issue as well as making an effort to really understand the different commercial concerns of different stakeholders. I tended to find that the interview would only really focus on one but I quite liked being able to say "I'd be delighted to talk about X or Y, do you have a preference?" at the interview. </p><p></p><p>Little anecdote: someone I know very well was interviewing at a magic circle firm for a VS and they chose to do the Thomas Cook example as their case study. Get to the interview and it was the lead partner on the entire thing who was their interviewer! Personally my worst nightmare but they pulled it off and later got a TC there so can't have been too bad!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jacob Miller, post: 51762, member: 5063"] In terms of approaching commercial-orientated interviews, I typically had 2 fairly full, fairly well-developed case studies that I would discuss. Typically, I'd look for them to both be quite different- for example, one transactional (e.g. a big merger or acquisition) and one contentious/ regulatory (for example a major court case, insolvency or regulatory change), and I would want both of them to be on the more complex side of things too rather than super simple. Sometimes I'd use something more political but I tended to err away from these as they run the risk of catching the interviewer's politics the wrong way. Things that were super relevant during my assessment cycle, for perspective, included: - Carrillion collapse - Thomas Cook collapse - Tiffany LVMH merger and subsequent dispute - Google/ Amazon/ Starbucks UK tax issues - Brexit regulatory climate - US China trade wars I would prep 2 for any given AC- research all hell out of them, read from a big variety of sources and develop a really good knowledge of the framework of the issue as well as making an effort to really understand the different commercial concerns of different stakeholders. I tended to find that the interview would only really focus on one but I quite liked being able to say "I'd be delighted to talk about X or Y, do you have a preference?" at the interview. Little anecdote: someone I know very well was interviewing at a magic circle firm for a VS and they chose to do the Thomas Cook example as their case study. Get to the interview and it was the lead partner on the entire thing who was their interviewer! Personally my worst nightmare but they pulled it off and later got a TC there so can't have been too bad! [/QUOTE]
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