Clarke Willmott has been kicked off the Crown Estate’s rural panel in favour of a consolidated roster comprising Bond Dickinson and Burges Salmon. Current energy panel firm Bond Dickinson and longtime advisers Burges Salmon won the top spots on the group’s rural, coastal and Windsor Estate portfolio at the expense of Clarke Willmott, which first […]
DLA Piper, Addleshaw Goddard, Pannone Corporate and TLT have been appointed to the first-ever legal panel installed by online fashion retailer Boohoo.com in the wake of its £560m IPO. Pannone Corporate, which also advised the retailer on its IPO, has been enlisted to advise on IP, corporate, commercial and dispute resolution matters. The firm retained the […]
Drinks giant Diageo has named Addleshaw Goddard, Pinsent Masons and Slaughter and May its formal ‘preferred suppliers’ in the UK following a four-month review. The three firms have won places on the FTSE 100 company’s consolidated panel, its first review since new general counsel Siobhan Moriarty took the reins in mid 2013. Slaughters, Addleshaws and […]
Unilever has kicked off its first formal panel review, which could formalise relationships with Slaughter and May, Mayer Brown and Baker & McKenzie among others. Firms have been asked to pitch for work for the first time in the company’s inaugural review. The tender process is being organised by operations legal director Saswata Mukherjee. Mukherjee […]
BP has kicked off its first UK legal panel review since March 2011, as the current roster’s three-year mandate draws to a close. The panel is currently home to eight firms, including Linklaters and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer. CMS Cameron McKenna, Field Fisher Waterhouse, Herbert Smith Freehills, Norton Rose Fulbright, Olswang and Pinsent Masons also have […]
Scottish & Southern Energy (SSE) has cut Herbert Smith Freehills from its defence roster in favour of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer as part of its first ever panel review. The ‘Big Six’ energy company is set to appoint its inaugural panel in the next few weeks having chopped Herbert Smith Freehills (HSF) as its defence adviser following conflict […]
The National Grid has kicked Irwin Mitchell off its debt recovery panel and replaced it with Shakespeares ahead of a full-scale review to take place this summer. The firm has been ejected from National Grid’s debt and damage panel a year before the company puts in place a new full roster in April 2015. A […]
Private equity house HgCapital has shaken up its panel, adding White & Case to its roster for the first time. The addition makes White & Case the third firm on the sponsor’s formal panel, alongside existing members Weil Gotshal & Manges and Linklaters. It is thought that Hg initiated the panel review in response to […]
Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) will hold on to its contract to run Thames Water’s legal function until 2018, the firm announced today. BLP first signed the deal to transfer Thames Water’s legal function to its new managed legal services (MLS) division in Reading back in 2010 and employed 15 of its lawyers in a deal […]
Four local authorities in the West of England have pooled together to appoint 12 law firms and 20 barristers’ chambers to a series of shared legal panels. North Somerset Council led on the new legal services framework agreement. Other consortium members include Bath & North East Somerset Council, Bristol City Council and South Gloucestershire Council. North […]
Magic circle rivals Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Linklaters have maintained top spots on BP’s new UK legal panel, which was announced today after a six-month review. The firms are joined by CMS Cameron McKenna, Field Fisher Waterhouse, Herbert Smith, McGrigors, Norton Rose, and Olswang. Other specialist firms have been selected for niche roles. The engagements […]
Clydesdale Bank has revamped its national panel, with 14 firms appointed. Addleshaw Goddard, Brodies, CMS Cameron McKenna, DLA Piper, Dundas & Wilson, Eversheds, Harper Macleod, HBJ Gateley Wareing, Hogan Lovells, McClure Naismith, Morton Fraser, Norton Rose, Optima Legal and Thomas Eggar all make the list following the review. A spokesperson for the bank described it […]