Is Middle East unrest bad for business? This is a key question international law firms are asking themselves. But the answer is not what you might expect, particularly in the private client sector, says Mustafa Hussain
The ‘butterfly effect’ is a concept of chaos theory regarding how a small occurrence in one place can, through an interconnected chain of events, result in a huge effect to another place. Popular culture has visualised this theory with the well known example of a butterfly flapping its wings in one location, causing a microscopic rush of air, which builds to create a hurricane elsewhere in the world.
