Santande, an online procurement company announced its first time five spot legal account panel which includes Bird & Bird, Wragge & Co, Taylor Wessing for, DMH Stallard and US firm Reed Smith.The new panel has been expanded to accommodate Santander’s corporate banking business.
In addition, 16 firms which have been retained covers Slaughter and May, Hogan Lovells, Ashurst, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Nabarro, Eversheds and Berwin Leighton Paisner.
The review also covered sub-panels including commercial, employment, pensions, corporate, regulatory, capital markets, litigation, financial services and asset lending etc.
News of Santander’s new panel came out a week later as Barclays appointed US firms Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton, Shearman & Sterling and Sullivan & Cromwell to its general advisory panel.
In addition, 16 firms which have been retained covers Slaughter and May, Hogan Lovells, Ashurst, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Nabarro, Eversheds and Berwin Leighton Paisner.
The review also covered sub-panels including commercial, employment, pensions, corporate, regulatory, capital markets, litigation, financial services and asset lending etc.
News of Santander’s new panel came out a week later as Barclays appointed US firms Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton, Shearman & Sterling and Sullivan & Cromwell to its general advisory panel.