Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas

When our global funds partners decided to meet in the Entertainment Capital of the World, there was a great deal of scepticism from the rest of the firm as to how constructive our collective output from the meetings might be.

One of our kindly litigation partners even had the temerity to question whether given the performance of the hedge funds sector in 2016 so far, we would be better suited meeting at a Holiday Inn in Blackpool (for those not familiar with this UK city, try and keep it that way).

However, we then explained hand on heart that we were actually there to also attend a variety of events being hosted around the Skybridge Alternatives (SALT) Conference, it made a little more sense. SALT is one of the largest conferences in the US focusing on the alternatives market and brings along some fantastic speakers ranging from Michael Bloomberg and Mark Cuban through to Kobe Bryant and Will Smith. Eclectic to say the least. I should at this point make it very