Chapter 10
‘I’ll say it for the last time: if we don’t modify the articles on our liability, we’re not signing beeep!’
‘I’m not modifying beeep. Unless you’re willing to give us a discount on the price, of course.’
‘The price? Are you joking? No beeep discount. If you didn’t like the price, you should have said so straight away, before you came here.’
For around an hour now, my client, a well-known figure in the business world, and his counterpart, an equally popular Italian entrepreneur, have been disputing many of the fundamental points of a million-pound deal, adding a bit of colour to the negotiation with some typical gentlemanly utterances.
The giant imperial table in our meeting room is piled with business cards, mobile phones and laptops. There are also various other participan
