Barclays has announced that it has completed a six-month review of its coveted legal panel.
As first reported on www.thelawyer.com earlier today (10 June) Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has won a place on the banking giant’s general advisory panel. The magic circle firm joins Allen & Overy (A&O), Clifford Chance, DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary, Linklaters, Lovells and Simmons & Simmons.
In addition to the general advisory panel Barclays has 11 specialist panels including the lending and finance panel (formerly business banking lending and finance) which comprises 31 firms. Ashurst, Cobbetts, Freshfields, Norton Rose, Shearman & Sterling and Sidley Austin Brown & Wood have been added to that panel for the first time.
Here is a full list of the results for other principal specialist panels. New appointments are highlighted with an asterisk.
Wealth structuring and fiduciary (formerly wealth management)
Addleshaw Goddard
A&O
Dickinson Dees*
Halliwells
Withers
Structured capital markets (formerly structured tax)
A&O
Clifford Chance
Freshfields
Linklaters
Slaughter and May
Barclays Capital Securitisation
A&O
Clifford Chance
Freshfields
Linklaters
Lovells*
Sidley Austin Brown & Wood
Weil Gotshal & Manges
Litigation
A&O
Clifford Chance
DLA
Freshfields *
Hill Dickinson
Linklaters
Lovells
Matthew Arnold & Baldwin
Simmons & Simmons
TLT Solicitors
Corporate recovery
A&O
Bond Pearce
Clifford Chance
Dickinson Dees
DLA
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer*
Lawrence Graham*
Linklaters
Lovells
Matthew Arnold & Baldwin
Pinsent Masons
Salans
Simmons & Simmons
TLT Solicitors
Barclays Private Equity
Infrastructure work
Addleshaws*
Ashurst
Clifford Chance* (n)
Freshfields*
MBO work
Addleshaws
Clifford Chance LLP
DLA
Eversheds
Osborne Clarke
Pinsent Masons
Travers Smith*
