No less than seven Lovells partners are in the running to replace Lesley MacDonagh as managing partner as the top 10 City firm gears up for its leadership election.

As reported on legalweek.com (8 September), the candidates are Roland Bomhard (projects); John Davidson (corporate); David Harris (finance); Don Kelly (tax); John Pheasant (head of competition & EU); Harald Seisler (litigation); and Andrew Skipper (head of commercial).