The impending departure of the current partner means this is one of those rare occasions that partnership is genuinely on offer without the need to bring a following. So if you are a senior associate frustrated by a glass ceiling or an existing partner looking for a new challenge this may well be the opportunity you have been waiting for.

The firm boasts a number of ex magic circle partners and the profits per partner are similarly impressive. This is a firm which offers a genuine work life balance as far as that is possible with corporate work.

The caseload entails everything from venture capital arrangements and joint ventures to company disposals and complex reorganisations.