HC Deb 20 December 1989 vol 164 cc243-4W
Mr. David Shaw

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer which solicitors firms are or have been involved in privatisation work; and which of those firms maintain affiliated offices in(a) Jersey, (b) the Netherlands Antilles or (c) the Cayman Islands.

Mr. Lilley

[holding answer 19 December 1989]: The following solicitors have been, or are currently, engaged by the Government in connection with the privatisation programme;

  • Allen and Overy
  • Ashurst Morris and Crisp
  • Coward Chance1
  • Clifford Turner1
  • Freshfields
  • Field Fisher Waterhouse
  • Herbert Smith
  • Linklater and Paines
  • Lovell White and Durrent
  • McGrigor Donald
  • McKenna
  • Norton Rose
  • W. and J. Burness
  • 1Coward Chance and Clifford Turner have merged to become Clifford Chance.
  • Details of their affiliated offices may be obtained from the firm in question.