PERVADE!

Dear Remi, Until you, I didn’t know it was possible to love a friend this much- purely, platonically, and purposefully. I guess it’s almost the same way a Mother meets her new born in the flesh and immediately feels an inexplicable depth of love she hadn’t previously thought possible. You came into my life, and with the softness of a gentle breeze, influenced my mindset, challenged my beliefs for the better,  and wrapped me in something of a human blanket so full of love and warmth and colour. I had prayed for a friend like you. Yet, when God answered by bringing you my way, I had no idea how much I actually needed you.                        Recovery days with my Rem Rem💚 To be entirely honest, though, the boon of your friendship shouldn’t have been such a shocker. It’s exactly in line with what I’d always known about you. Even when nothing but a “hi” passed between us as colleagues, it was easy to tell that you are one-...

Hi everyone, Here’s a fun fact to kick off today’s post: I’m on a mission to cut out carbonated drinks from my life. As you would imagine, this often means not just avoiding the fizzy stuff itself, but steering clear of any digital or physical content that even remotely touches on it. Yet, when I stumbled upon the news that AriZona Beverages (longtime maker of 99 cents beverages in the US) had accused Evercore (a prominent global independent investment banking advisory firm) of a confidentiality breach, I couldn’t resist the urge to dig further into a case that so beautifully intersects Law and Investment Banking. A can of AriZona sitting pretty. Let’s get right into it. What happens when an investment bank, with the sole consent of its client, uploads a Supply Agreement between that client and a third-party to a Virtual Data Room (VDR). The third-party then claims that this upload is a breach of confidentiality, arguing that the agreement contains sensitive business secrets and that i...