The hackneyed expression ‘all good things come to those who wait’ – well, hackneyed ever since Guinness adopted the slogan for a decade-long advertising campaign to convince right-thinking lager drinkers to turn to the black stuff – has never really applied to the City. More apt would be ‘good things come to those with good contacts’.

Polish Dewey Ballantine corporate big-hitter Lejb Fogelman is, as you would expect from the firm’s Warsaw senior partner, a man of many contacts and – not for the first time – they have landed him in the spotlight.