Slaughter and May was paid £1.2m by Carillion days before the before the contractor collapsed into liquidation this January, with Clifford Chance (CC), Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Mills & Reeves among a number of other law firms also receiving last-ditch payouts.
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