The Diary was rather surprised this week to be handed a press release from Berwin Leighton Paisner that announced the completion of a record-shredding real estate deal worth an impressive £32trn. We knew London was expensive, but some of the properties are in Leeds, Grimsby and Weston-super-Mare.
Naturally, Legal Week was desperate to discover the truth behind this remarkable upturn in fortunes of the firm. Perhaps the key to it all was some revolutionary financing structure or a novel Zen-based self-management technique?
