First: a shout-out to our 7 listeners in Mongolia! Our statistics show we really do have listeners all over the world, and we’re very excited about each one.

In this week’s episode, we went on a quest to find the most incredible sounding legal terms that we hear lawyers use in the European Investment Bank, and challenged the lawyers to explain them in a way that wouldn’t make one snooze at a garden party.

For example, we will help you understand what the Latin phrases “mutatis mutandis”, “ipsa loquitur”, “pari passu” and “in rem security” mean. No, really, you will. And it is not just Latin, either: you’ll also find out what is “snooze, you lose”, and the definition of the innocent-sounding “reservation of rights” which, it turns out, can actually be quite frightening.

And if you think all this legal jargon is completely unnecessary, and that people should just act reasonably, beware: we found out that “acting reasonably” is, in fact, a very complicated legal term! So: don’t say it, unless you’ve listened to this episode, and actually mean it.

Competing to provide the most exciting legal term (and its explanation) possible were:

• Kinga Soltész, counsel in the EIB’s Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Eastern Neighbours division.
• Matthias Brzezinski, counsel in the Austria and Germany legal unit of the EIB.
• Maria José Cerrato Sánchez, senior counsel for the EIB’s Spain and Portugal legal division.
• and Tom Nguyen, counsel in the UK and Ireland unit of the EIB’s legal directorate.

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