Risk is not something for which legal professionals have much appetite, but as resources are squeezed in-house legal teams are having to manage the legal risks to their businesses in ever-more imaginative ways.

A study of general counsel published last month by Nabarro found that 43% felt that their teams were under-resourced. It also discovered that 55% of those interviewed were housing secondees and, of these, 58% had increased their number of secondees over the year.

But Tate & Lyle seems to be an exception to the second rule. Despite having to deal with the legal concerns of around half of the company's