A group of six firms including Eversheds, Harper Macleod and Norton Rose Fulbright have lost their places on the combined Clydesdale Bank and Yorkshire Bank national panel. The “significant consolidation”, which reduced the roster from 13 to seven, has also called time on Brodies’, Morton Fraser’s and Thomas Eggar’s spell on the national roster, three […]
Eversheds has joined the Vodafone panel for the first time following a review of the telecoms giant’s roster of legal advisers. The firm joins DLA Piper, Linklaters, Norton Rose Fulbright, Osborne Clarke, Olswang and Slaughter and May on the revamped panel, which will remain in place for three years. Wragge Lawrence Graham & Co is […]
BP has appointed nine firms to its specialist legal panel, including Baker & McKenzie and Hill Dickinson. Fieldfisher, Holman Fenwick Willan, Reed Smith, Stevens & Bolton, Sullivan & Cromwell, Watson Farley & Williams and recently-established arbitration boutique Three Crowns have also won spots on the niche roster. Each of the firms has been appointed for […]
Ashurst, Simmons & Simmons and Addleshaw Goddard have won coveted first-time spots on BP’s UK panel, unveiled today (9 July) following a three-month review process. The panel has expanded its roster from eight firms to ten, reappointing all of its existing firms with the exemption of Fieldfisher, for a three year mandate with effect from […]
Mills & Reeve and Veale Wasbrough Vizards (VWV) are to give employment advice to the British Library after winning a mini-tender run by the London Universities Purchasing Consortium (LUPC). The library, which has a small internal legal team led by legal services head Ricky Olejnik, does not operate a formal panel but uses the LUPC […]
Barclays has chopped its global panel by 30 per cent after unveiling a new-look structure made up of general and preferred advisers. Clifford Chance, Allen & Overy (A&O), Linklaters, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and DLA Piper have all been re-appointed to the banking panel, which was extended for 12 months last summer (14 January 2013). The […]
Allen & Overy (A&O), Herbert Smith Freehills and Macfarlanes are among eight firms to have retained positions of Virgin Group’s panel following an informal review. Virgin Group launched a full audit of its legal advisory roster with the aim of assessing the existing relationships with its panel firms in November (12 November 2013). The wide-ranging […]
Banking giant Barclays has told panel firms that they should team up as single units as part of its latest panel review process. Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Linklaters are among those that been called upon to team up with other firms in the bank’s roster in a bid to carve up work more cost-effectively. The […]
Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) has turned to change theorist Richard Susskind for advice on its next panel process, which is expected to result in its adviser roster being reduced for a second time. The bank, which is majority owned by the taxpayer, has warned more than 20 firms that sit on its tier 1 […]
The Ministry of Defence (MoD) is on the hunt for an expanded panel after turning its back on the idea of scrapping or reducing its dedicated roster. The department has launched its first panel review in five years after extending the term of its slimmed-down roster last year. MoD commercial lawyer Andrew Fox delayed the […]
BP’s ongoing panel review process is drawing to a close, with firms expecting to be told if they have scooped a UK panel place before the end of June. However the parallel US panel review could drag out beyond the end of the month, although some firms pitching for spots on both the UK and […]
Addleshaw Goddard, CMS Cameron McKenna, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Osborne Clarke have won the main spots on Scottish and Southern Energy’s (SSE) first formal panel. The ‘Big Six’ energy company has slashed its adviser roster from around 30 firms to seven in a panel review launched last year by new head of legal Elizabeth Tanner […]