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Wilko is out

Posted 19/02/2008 by The Daily Diary

Journalists are no shirkers when it comes to blagging the occasional freebie or three. Indeed, several Diary spies have not actually paid for a meal since first being admitted to the Legal Week command beacon.

But nothing quite compares to the dedication to the ligging lifestyle shown by canny in-housers in the private equity econo-sphere.

Claire Wilkinson, founder of in-house networking group the Private Equity Lawyers Forum, recently batted her eyelashes at former firm Slaughter and May – apparently not exactly famed in the in-house community for its generous entertaining – and managed to convince the top-flight M&A shop to stump up a plush three-course meal for the entire group.

Whether the in-housers were given their own personalised napkin-holders in classic Slaughters silver is not yet known.