Making dough

Just where would this column be without daft law firm publicity shots? On this occasion, we are grateful to Manchester-based Halliwell Landau for this celebration of corporate partner Nigel Brown's work advising Maple Leaf Foods on a 108 million sale of its bakery operations to Canada Bread.

Bagels, as you may have guessed, form part of Maple Leaf's offering, or rather frozen par-baked bagels, whatever they may be.

More to the point, Maple Leaf Bakeries is apparently the largest bagel producer in the UK.

All of which means that there was a lot of dough passing between people, whether it was the stuff the bagels are made out of, or legal fees.