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Cat Rutter Pooley

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Cat Rutter Pooley writes UK corporate commentary for the FT’s Lombard column. Cat is a former corporate lawyer turned journalist, who worked at Slaughter and May and Osborne Clarke before joining the FT in 2016. She was most recently the FT’s City correspondent and before that wrote breaking news about UK companies.
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