Challenging The Unchallengeable

As one of the newest junior associates to join the growing Structured Finance Group at Reed Smith, there are times when I feel that I have the best seat in the house to witness the changes going on in this tumultuous period for our financial markets.  The economy as a whole, and its associated regulatory regime are in a clear and sustained state of flux.

The main benefit of this for someone at my stage of their career is that it encourages you to "challenge the unchallengeable."  Ideas and concepts that were previously accepted practice are now being reformulated and reconsidered.  The building blocks which were simply taken as read are now questioned and analysed in detail.  As a junior associate, the fresh approach you can bring means that you can ask more questions of what is going on around you and learn a great deal as a result.  Indeed the very infrastructure which oversees the way in which the financial markets are regulated in the UK has recently been