The unlikely pairing of James Bond and Crossroads has been thrown together in the latest instalment of The Diary’s quest for interesting things to say about the buildings that lawyers work in, as opposed to the lawyers themselves.

A Sullivan & Cromwell mole who uses the pseudonym ‘Felix Leiter’ — a character in the James Bond novels — has e-mailed The Diary to inform us of an early example of the firm’s “commitment to US-UK co-operation”.