Clifford Chance (CC) is set to move about 300 support staff jobs from the UK to India over the next four years, in a cost-cutting move that will save it in the region of £30m.

The move, announced today (2 October), will see the firm establish an office in Delhi and comes as part of managing partner David Childs’ costs-cutting drive, which saw him pledge in 2004 to cut the firm’s costs by £40m.