BLP has restructured its Managed Legal Services (MLS) division following a number of departures and the appointment of a new relationship manager for key client Thames Water.

Thames relationship partner Patrick Somers, who joined BLP in 2005, left in March this year and has been replaced by corporate partner Keith Stella, while MLS chief executive Andrew MacNaughton, who was brought in last year to look at options to grow the division, has also left the firm.