OLIVIA WHITCROFT

“My colleague and I spent three days in Paris visiting the sights and drinking bouteilles de vin”

If you aren’t au fait with governing law, you may be giving carte blanche to the foreign company you’re working with – and that would be a faux pas About 15 years ago I went on a business trip to Paris. While it sounds glamorous, the purpose was to attend a data room. It wasn’t a modern-day data room, which requires just a laptop, internet connection and multi-factor authentication to visit, and you can come and go as you please. This was more like a less fun version of an escape room, where you’re trapped in an underground chamber and not allowed to leave until you’ve decoded all the paper documents within. We’d been sent there in connection with the purchase of a French firm. We were acting for the…

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