It wasn’t boring; 2010 won’t be either
Reaching the end of what has proved a highly eventful year (and decade) the temptation to turn this column into a mini retrospective has proved irresistible. But oddly, as turbulent as 2009 proved, in many ways it wasn’t that surprising. True, given the previous reticence among top City firms to launch formal redundancy programmes there was something slightly shocking about the speed with which Clifford Chance, Linklaters and Allen & Overy set about restructuring their businesses in the first three months of the year.
