Coliseum“Clifford Chance (CC), the world’s largest integrated law firm, has reached an amicable agreement to part ways on agreed terms with five partners in its Italian practice, Grimaldi Clifford Chance. The departures reflect a divergence of approach to the conduct and management of the legal practice.”

So read the statement from CC’s PR machine on the news that the senior and name partner of the firm’s Italian arm, Vittorio Grimaldi, was to leave the firm.