Allen & Overy (A&O) has sealed a 15-year lease for Societe Generale to move 800 staff, many of them traders, into 80,000 square feet of its purpose-built Spitalfields headquarters from the start of next year. The Bishops Square building is more than one million square feet in size and A&O has 120,000 square feet left to sub-let. A&O itself will be moving more than 2,000 people during October and November this year.

First reported on legalweek.com (7 July).