Theodore Goddard (TG) is pressing two senior partners primed to move to Denton Wilde Sapte to reconsider their resignations in the wake of the firm’s current merger bid with Addleshaw Booth & Co, it has emerged.

In an unusual move, TG senior partner Paddy Grafton Green wrote to banking head Michael Black last week inviting him to reconsider his decision, less than a week after TG announced details of its merger bid with Addleshaws.