Red-herring ninja

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Beyond even the ISDA ninja, the tax ninja or the Stock loan ninja the red-herring ninja is the purest form of inhouse counsel, he has worked for your DCM team since 1995 and is sole ability — and hell, it has served him well — is to hover around the Biggs threshold of minimal legal significance, bad-temperedly correcting the typography and punctuation of his employer’s legal name — “comma London Branch” and not “acting through its London Branch” — wherever he finds it on the football team of his deal prospectuses.

Corporate rebrandings and regulatory mergers — Brexit means Brexit, redux — can be life-defining moments for such a fellow.

See also

• The Biggs constant
• Inhouse legal team of the year
• Inhouse counsel