Tech & Innovation Awards 2016). Won ‘Best Leadership of Innovation’ and ‘Best Managed Workplace’ (Managing Partners’ Forum Awards for Management Excellence 2015). Notable cases DWF, working alongside Jones Lang LaSalle, has advised Korea's National Pension Service as lead bidder to buy Goldman Sachs’s new London headquarters for $1.56bn. The deal will see Goldman Sachs commit to a 25-year lease of the 826,000 square foot site and are set to move into the building in summer 2019. The landmark transaction is the single largest UK real estate deal this year, and the second-largest ever, after the sale of the 'Walkie Talkie' building for $1.6bn, where DWF London lawyers reside. DWF is advising the Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea as the inquiry into Grenfell Tower fire disaster in June 2017, which resulted in the deaths of at least 80 people in North Kensington. DWF's Police and Prison Law team have secured a favourable judgment for South Yorkshire Police in a claim brought by Sir Cliff Richard against the BBC and SYP for infringement of his privacy rights. The firm advised Poundland owner Pepkor on its $233m financing with US investment firm Davidson Kempner Capital Management. DWF advised Discovery Park, one of Europe's leading science and technology parks, on $207m biomass renewable energy plant. Around 650 Pfizer UK employees are based at Discovery Park. Notable people and alumni In 2017, Sir Nigel Knowles, former High Sheriff of Greater London and Global Co-chairman and Senior Partner of DLA Piper was appointed as Chairman of DWF before being appointed as CEO. He is also Chairman of BioSURE a company which manufactures COVID-19 lateral flow tests and was chairman of recruitment firm Brewster Partners before resigning following allegations made in a report by The Times newspaper and the BBC. In 2018, DWF has appointed business transformation and managed services specialist Anup Kollanethu as CEO of Managed Services, who joins from Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer after spearheading one of the UK's largest legal services offerings for the magic circle firm. DWF hired former DLA Piper CIO Daniel Pollick. Pollick held the role of CIO at DLA – the UK's top law firm by revenue in 2017 – from December 1997 to February 2018, and is one of the best known names in the industry. Practice areas DWF is structured into two legal service areas, covering Commercial Services and Insurance Services respectively. The Insurance Services area includes a