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 […]
The Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (Ipsa), the body which oversees MPs’ salaries and expenses, has appointed Browne Jacobson as its sole legal provider in the place of Addleshaw Goddard. Browne Jacobson picked up the mandate following a competitive tender for the three-year appointment, which will see the firm advise Ipsa on issues including public law, […]
British pensions administrator Suffolk Life has appointed Bond Dickinson, DWF, Curle Stewart, Tughans and Wilson Nesbitt for Scotland and Northern Ireland with immediate effect. Suffolk Life expanded its panel to enhance buying and selling commercial property within their self-invested personal pensions (SIPPs) in Scotland and Northern Ireland, having received positive feedback after the launch of […]
Lloyds Banking Group panel firms are gearing up for the second panel review in a year as the banks own-account roster goes up for grabs. The bank is set to kick off its review for coveted own-account work in the next two months in time for an October deadline, when the current roster expires. Current […]
Utility company South Staffordshire Plc has cut its informal panel from 25 to four with DWF, Wragge Lawrence Graham & Co, SGH Martineau and SAS Daniels being awarded the mandate to advise the company. The review was initiated following the appointment of general counsel (GC) Gareth Brewerton, who joined the company in October from SGH […]
Insurance giant QBE has revamped its roster of external advisers for its European operations and created two distinct panels for the first time. The core panel, which handles a variety of work including employment, data protection, corporate, and regulatory matters, consists of DAC Beachcroft, Mayer Brown, Norton Rose Fulbright and RPC. Added to this is […]
Clydesdale Bank has launched its first panel review since appointing general counsel Jennifer Darbyshire in 2012 and overhauling its legal team. Tender invitations were sent out last month to several firms not on the current list as well as the 14 firms already on the bank’s panel. For the first time the bank’s commercial real […]
A total of eight firms including Ashfords, DLA Piper and Eversheds have lost their places on the Homes & Communities Agency (HCA) panel, which has been slashed from a total of 14 firms to just nine. The national housing and regeneration agency for England, in charge of the Affordable Homes Programme, has overhauled its legal […]
Sainsbury’s has added TLT and King & Wood Mallesons SJ Berwin to its revamped roster in its third panel review. The tender, run by in-house counsel Clare Russell and Paul Jenkinson with procurement officer Phil Sykes, is the third time the supermarket has reviewed its law firm provision. In 2011 it appointed 12 firms to […]
Lloyds Banking Group has finalised its long-awaited customer-pay panel in what marks the first formal process for its third-party roster. The bank was due to put in place its third-party panel, for which its customers pay the fees, early last year after deciding to split it from its own-account panel but firms were left in […]
King & Wood Mallesons SJ Berwin (KWMSJB) has been appointed by SuperGroup, the corporate group behind the Superdry brand, to handle its continental European real estate matters, as part of a wider review of the fashion group’s external advisers. The firm advised on its first transaction for the new client this month, advising on the […]