With countless City lawyers this week (22 April) running the London Marathon – including Linklaters’ Tony Angel – for some a gentle 26-mile jog across the capital is no longer challenge enough. Step forward Kirkland & Ellis London restructuring partner Lyndon Norley.

Already a veteran of several races past, Norley is taking part in no less than two marathons this year. He eschewed this year’s London jamboree in favour of next weekend’s Hamburg event, which itself is a mere dry-run for the real challenge in September – the Medoc Marathon in France.