Sadly, Geoffrey Williams, one of the founding partners of our firm, died last week on his 76th birthday at St Thomas’s Hospital after a long illness. Together with fellow partners Alastair Farley and Martin Watson, Geoffrey was a founding partner of Watson Farley & Williams and much of the firm’s immediate and continuing success has owed a huge amount to the joint contribution of all three of them, with Geoffrey leading the way in the aviation sector in particular. He will be remembered with great respect and fondness. Our thoughts are with his wife Susan and their children, James, Katherine and Edward.