Transport for London (TfL) has extended its current panel by two years with a plan to re-tender in 2018, Legal Business understands.
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Barclays panel latest: More firms to pay up as bank extends value account scheme
Barclays is planning to extend the value account system it introduced in 2014, where law firms are required to pay a rebate if they fail to hit their value targets, to all external advisers as part of its current panel review.
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Eversheds, Hogan Lovells and Bakers secure spots on defence multinational’s first panel
Eversheds, Hogan Lovells and Baker & McKenzie are among nine firms to have won places on French multinational aerospace, defence and security firm Safran’s inaugural global legal panel.
Eversheds, Hogan Lovells and Bakers secure spots on defence multinational’s first panel
Eversheds, Hogan Lovells and Baker & McKenzie are among nine firms to have won places on French multinational aerospace, defence and security firm Safran’s inaugural global legal panel.
Weil, Gotshal & Manges, as well as Fieldfisher and Osborne Clarke (OC) have also made the roster, alongside domestic French boutiques Betto Seraglini, Brunswick Société d’Avocats and Courrégé Foreman.
Barclays to extend value accounts framework as part of latest panel review
More firms set to repay bank if targets missed
Barclays is planning to extend the value account system it introduced in 2014, where law firms are required to pay a rebate if they fail to hit their value targets, to all external advisers as part of its current panel review.
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Pearson kicks off second US panel review after finalising litigation roster
Launch of US corporate review follows UK panel selection
Pearson, the largest education company and book publisher in the world, has launched its US corporate panel review after finalising spots on its litigation roster for the region. The US changes come after Pearson finalised its UK roster in recent months with the help of Accenture.
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‘Choice and competition’: Government launches £50m panel for specialist rail advice
The Government is to launch a £50m rail legal advice services framework to provide specialist work to the Department for Transport.
In-house: Crown Estate to review energy and commercial real estate panels
The Crown Estate is to launch a review of its external legal adviser panel following the departure of general counsel (GC) Vivienne King who has been replaced by former deputy Rob Booth (pictured).
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‘Rather tiresome tricks’: BP orders panel firms to pitch for $1m-plus instructions ahead of 2017 review
Ahead of its UK legal panel review scheduled for 2017, energy giant BP has informed its current external advisers they will now be required to pitch for instructions worth over $1m in legal fees, in a bid to curb costs.
Ringing the changes – Nokia appoints first global legal panel
Shearman & Sterling, Reed Smith, Dentons and Eversheds are among the firms appointed to Nokia’s newly-created global legal panel.
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