Interview with an ex-solicitor: Lomax Ward Aaron Rashid

some interesting deals. There were elements of the work that I enjoyed, however ultimately as a corporate lawyer you spend your career executing other peoples' decisions. You are brought in towards the end of a process and are asked to deliver a lot of work in a very short amount of time. As a general rule (and there are of course exceptions), you advise a company for a snapshot in time (a fundraise, an acquisition, an exit, a joint venture) but once the deal is done, the company moves on and your interaction ceases. I was much more interested to get closer to the decision making and had always aspired to start my own business. Hence, I opted to move to a role as an in-house counsel and then transitioned to being a full-time investment professional, before starting my own business.