U.K. Top 50 firm Pennington Manches has closed its office in San Francisco due to the ongoing effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, a statement by the firm confirmed on Friday.

The firm shuttered its office in the U.S. city at the end of the summer, according to a spokesperson for the firm, who attributed the closure to the inability of the firm to send U.K.-based partners to the West Coast for events and meetings because of the coronavirus outbreak.