Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer is to be put on a high profile human rights group’s ‘dirty list’ of firms connected to business interests in Burma – one of the first times a major legal adviser has been targeted for aiding controversial projects.

The UK-based Burma Campaign, which is backed by patrons Baroness Helena Kennedy QC and Sir John Mortimer, told Legal Week that Freshfields would be added to the list along with its client, Malaysian state oil company Petronas.