Nabarro real estate partner Ciaran Carvalho on sink-or-swim deals and nauseating Christmas parties

Why did you become a lawyer? I’ve always enjoyed negotiating and trying to influence people and I thought the law would provide plenty of opportunities for that. Someone suggested I become a lawyer when I was playing Scrabble as a 14-year-old, when I tried persuading a competitor of the merits of a particular word without a dictionary.