In fact, Jean Richards is more than a matronly mathematician with a
sensible line in shoes and company restructuring. Like Fairhurst, she
knows how to let her hair down, as anyone who has ventured out onto the
dance floor with her will acknowledge, she insists.
But when it comes to winning contracts - like the high-profile one for
the US bondholders who have bankrolled troubled Adriatic Tankers -
Richards is the front-woman.
Indeed,
