Slaughter and May is to maintain its referral relationship with Moscow-based law firm Alrud, as elite firms across Europe reassess their links to the Russian capital.

The U.K.-headquartered firm has close links to Alrud, which on its website says that its corporate and M&A practice team “often advises on Russian-law aspects of global deals involving Russian assets, as a result of Slaughter and May’s ‘best friends’ network”.