The Wharton weblog:

Neil and Sarah would like to wish all our friends and clients a very merry Christmas and a peaceful and prosperous New Year. If we've worked with you over the past 12 months, we'd like to thank you sincerely for your business - and we look forward to working with you again, and with friends old and new, in 2010. Please note that our office will be closed from Thursday 24 December until Monday 28 December inclusive, and again on Thursday 31 December and Friday 1 January: we'll return to duty again on Monday 4 January.

WRESTLING: UK Sport and British Wrestling have jointly commissioned Wharton's Neil Tunnicliffe to review the Great Britain wrestling programme at a key stage in the build-up to the London 2012 Olympic Games. Having had its funding cut at the start of the 2009-10 financial year, the programme downsized considerably - and Neil's role will involve assessing the impact of that process on wrestlers' prospects of qualifying for and succeeding at London. Also, with funding having now been increased again by UK Sport for the remainder of the cycle, Neil will advise the Board of Directors of BW on the priorities for expenditure of the extra cash - as well as examining and recommending the optimum governance and management structure for the programme.