There is more than one way to skin a cat. And evidently Neville Eisenberg and his crew at Berwin Leighton Paisner reckon they have come up with an ingenious solution to the firm’s challenge of how to launch itself on the international stage.

As he told Legal Week on the day the deal was announced, he wants BLP’s alliance with New York firm Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel to act as a magnet for quality firms on the Continent.