Weil Gotshal & Manges is advising troubled retailer BHS as it files for administration.
The US firm has fielded a team led by restructuring partner Adam Plainer, supported by fellow partner Mark Lawford.
DLA Piper partner Colin Ashford is understood to be working with the administrators Duff & Phelps, who were called in this morning to assist in the transaction.
Prior to the announcement, BHS had been in talks with Sports Direct to sell some of its stores. It is also understood to have been in talks with the pension regulator about sorting out its pension scheme, which has a £571m deficit.
Last year, BHS owner Sir Philip Green sold the company to a consortium for £1.
Background to the deal
While Weil has been advising BHS this time round, it was Fieldfisher (then Field Fisher Waterhouse) that landed an instruction to advise BHS after it was acquired by billionaire entrepreneur Philip Green.
Green bought BHS in 2000 for £200m.
DLA Piper meanwhile is a longstanding adviser to Duff & Phelps, working with the company last year in relation to the restructuring and sale of a group of five property owning companies to Starwood Capital Group.