Congratulations are in order for the wild kinder at Slaughters’ German chum, Hengeler Mueller, which has opened for business in Munich.

While your correspondent is fully aware that the office actually opened more than six months ago, on 1 January, the launch party was finally held earlier this month. As one bleary-eyed reveller ‘explained’ to The Diary, “work first, party later” has always been “the Hengeler way”.