The merger at the Minster Court offices of Dewey & LeBoeuf appears to be going even better than wily old chairman Mort Pierce might have dreamed.

The firm’s City sports and social committee has been in full swing ‘aligning’ those tricky cultural differences over a few glasses of wine, cheese-balls and pineapple chunks of late – with plenty of success. Indeed, The Diary hears how an email went round the US firm’s London digs after a recent love-in that may well have got a little too intimate.