It could be said the decision of Allen & Overy’s (A&O’s) global head of project finance, Graham Vinter, to leave for BG Group is akin to Alan Titchmarsh’s shock announcement that he was to leave Gardener’s World.

Such is the association between Vinter and project finance in the UK that the news its biggest name is to leave private practice is unsurprisingly the most popular story on legalweek.com today.