Nabarro’s position on brewer Molson Coors panel is understood to be under threat, with sources saying the company is searching for a replacement debt and competition adviser over the next two months. Sources said the firm, which was put onto the panel in 2011, was in danger of being thrown off the roster for good […]
The firm has announced its appointment to England Athletics’ single adviser panel in a contract that will last for two years. England Athletics has chosen Newcastle firm Muckle as its sole adviser in its first-ever panel. Muckle’s win comes after the regional firm won a total of six new panel places in 2014, as reported […]
Magic circle firms are still in demand, international firms stay stable and regional firms carve out a presence in 2014’s panel reviews, according to data compiled by The Lawyer. The 34 panel reviews in the public domain this year involved changes across different sectors, firms vying for the best positions as top ranking companies’ external counsel. Research […]
Shepherd & Wedderburn and TLT are understood to have replaced Eversheds and Pinsent Masons as the two firms in the running to become Heineken’s first sole adviser. With just weeks to go before the global beer brand is expected to make a decision on which firm will take on its everyday work Eversheds and Pinsents are […]
Firms on electronics company Electrocomponents’ longstanding panel can expect a shake-up, according to general counsel Ian Haslegrave in this week’s in-house interview. Haslegrave conducted Electrocomponents’ last panel review shortly after joining the company in 2006. The result was Linklaters winning the role of lead corporate adviser after a four-way pitch against Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Ashurst […]
Lloyds to announce own-account panel as Unilever appoints new faces A look back at the raft of panel reviews over the past month brings sharply into focus how flexible firms need to be to secure spots on GC’s rosters. The Lloyds’ own-account panel, which is due to be unveiled on 1 October, will not only […]
FTSE 250 company Essar Energy’s legal team is being restructured following its controversial de-listing and general counsel Sheena Singla is considering an informal panel shake-up as a result. Ashurst, Baker & McKenzie and Dentons could all receive more work from the energy giant when Singla and her team are merged with Essar Capital’s in-house lawyers. India’s […]
Baker & McKenzie, Mayer Brown, Olswang and Slaughter and May have all won spots on Unilever’s inaugural panel. The hard-fought tender process ended last month with 16 out of 25 competing firms winning roles on four separate panels. The review was led by operations legal director Saswata Mukherjee and will be repeated in 2016 (27 March 2014). […]
Firms vying for spots on Lloyds’ own-account panel have been given a week to file tender submissions to the bank in preparation for an October panel unveiling. Current panel firms Ashurst, Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP), Clifford Chance, Eversheds and Linklaters are all expected to be aiming to meet the bank’s 29 August deadline for electronic tender […]
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water (DCWW) has gifted Addleshaw Goddard and Burges Salmon first-time appointments on its revamped legal panel. The two firms will be joined by Aaron & Partners, Eversheds, Geldards, Hughes Griffiths, Hugh James, Linklaters and Slaughter and May – all of which featured on DCWW’s panel last time round. The panel review process, […]
Ethical investor Sustainable Development Capital LLP (SDCL) has appointed six firms to its inaugural legal panel, with Muckle and Walker Morris among those winning a spot. Other firms to be appointed include Addleshaw Goddard, Bird & Bird, Bevan Brittan and DAC Beachcroft. SDCL was launched in 2007 as a boutique investment firm offering advisory services to […]
Clydesdale Bank has named Eversheds, Harper Macleod, Morton Fraser and Optima as the four firms on its new recoveries panel. The four firms were cut from the bank’s slimmed-down national roster earlier this month when Clydesdale cut the panel in half (29 July 2014). But they have all been placed on the bank’s new recoveries […]