Osborne Clarke (OC) rainmaker Simon Beswick is set to return to the UK next year to take up a senior management role in a move that signals a shake-up of the top 50 firm’s leadership.

Beswick, who is OC’s head of private equity and has been leading the firm’s branch office in Silicon Valley since June 2001, confirmed that he is to return to the UK at the beginning of June 2003.