Barclays Capital (BarCap) and Barclays Corporate have merged their in-house litigation functions, with Barclays’ global retail banking (GRB) litigation head Stephanie Pagni taking up a new role leading the merged team.

Pagni, who has been on secondment to BarCap since June, is set to take up the newly-created role of director of litigation services for the bank’s corporate and investment banking divisions in the New Year.