The Greek Debt Crisis - A Brief Explanation

The Greek debt crisis has dominated headlines for the past few weeks. This post will briefly explain what has happened, and my next post will look at the legal implications of the crisis.

Here's a video of John Green explaining what has happened (because he's a lot cleverer than me):

What is an IPO?

Last week I spent some time at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, where Associate Jamie Corner and Trainee Fiona Guest talked us through the Poundland IPO.

I went into the session not even knowing what an IPO was, and emerged with a better understanding and practical example of how they work. In this post I'll go over the basics of IPOs, and in my next post I'll go over the imminent Alibaba IPO.