McDermott Will & Emery is advising F&C Asset Management as the company appeals a multimillion-pound sex discrimination claim upheld by an employment tribunal earlier this year.

McDermott City chief David Dalgarno (pictured) is leading the team advising F&C as it attempts to overturn the tribunal’s decision last month to uphold a discrimination claim brought by F&C’s former head of legal services, Gillian Switalski.