Dechert corporate partner Jonathan Angell on ‘misplacing’ £40m and his passion for the theatre

Why did you become a lawyer?  Originally, I wanted to be an actor – but performing in a village pantomime in the southwest of Cambridge wasn’t quite the West End I had set out to conquer.  I then realised that the legal profession offered plenty of opportunities to indulge my acting ‘talents’ (quite aside from the obvious similarities with pantomime).