Once upon a time the smuggest of the magic circle law firms, but since it moved its offices the a rag-and-bone market in East London, a more chastened outfit. A&O likes to think itself as the European inhouse-legal department for ISDA, who are in the same building in Spitalfields. This means it can rightly be taken to task for the utter horror of the drafting of the 2016 VM CSA.

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