Dundas & Wilson and CMS Cameron McKenna (CMS) have agreed a two-year partner lock-in as part of its £270m merger, which is set to go live later this year.

It is understood that partners have been locked into the partnership for two years on a particular level of pay as a condition of the merger.

All of Dundas' partners will join CMS' two-tier partnership structure, which was overhauled in May and divided into full-equity and fixed-share ranks, with the intenetion of speeding up progression for junior partners.