Re Vodafone McLaren Mercedes

Acting for McLaren, the Formula 1 team, throughout the 2007 F1 season: (1) advising it in relation to a large number of issues including: (a) charges brought against it by the sports governing body, the FIA; (b) the consequences of the receipt of confidential information belonging to another F1 team, Ferrari; (c) its contractual relations with the recipient of that information, its Chief Designer (Mr Michael Coughlan) and with one of its drivers, Fernando Alonso; and (d) issues arising out of incidents at three of this year’s Grands Prix (Monaco, Hungary and Brazil); and (2) acting for it in relation to, and representing it at hearings which took place before the World Motor Sport Council in July and September 2007, and which are scheduled to take place before the FIA International Court of Appeal in November 2007 and before the World Motor Sport Council in December 2007.