Maybe it is the bright lights of New York and London, or perhaps it’s due to being regularly paid enough cash to fill a wheelbarrow, but some successful advisers do struggle to keep their well-heeled feet on the ground – often forgetting their humble high street heritage in the process.

Not so, thankfully, at intergalactic glamour-magnet DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary, which stayed true to its northern roots last month by opting to host its latest swish social function in the post-industrial surrounds of the Tate Modern’s vast Turbine Hall.