This week’s target is Simon Beddow, a corporate partner at Ashurst.

Here is an unusual combination of precision and simplification. This chap wants every detail to aid his decisionmaking but reserves the right to subtract, abbreviate and streamline to suit his own agenda. He is bright, forthright and fiercely independent but, going back to his liking for precision, is also picky to the point of making me want to scream… he will get the detail he wants.