For the purposes of this slightly forced article, elite racehorses and City lawyers have plenty in common. Highly-strung thoroughbreds that respond in different measures to carrot and stick, effortlessly vaulting hurdles – hedge-based or regulatory – only for a fat bloke on the sidelines to swan off with all the winnings if they happen to finish first.

And now there is Boutrous – a rising star of the US racing scene, named after Gibson Dunn & Crutcher Los Angeles partner Theodore Boutrous Jnr.