Weil Gotshal & Manges and KPMG have reached a groundbreaking agreement in the MF Global administration that will see money returned to clients without the need for a court order.

Weil Gotshal is advising administrator KPMG on the high-profile insolvency proceedings, which kicked off late last year and are the first under the UK’s new ‘special administration’ regime set up last year to protect market stability in the wake of Lehman Brothers’ 2008 collapse.