Garretts’ City practice looks likely to break up as it emerged that Addleshaw Booth & Co, Tite & Lewis and Landwell are all in talks to hire individual partners and teams from the Andersen-tied firm.

While takeover talks with KPMG’s legal arm, KLegal, and at least one other mid-tier City firm continue to be pursued by the firm’s management, sources close to the discussions have confirmed that Andersen Legal’s hopes of transferring the practice whole are fading fast.