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THE DATA BEHIND THE STORY WHO REPRESENTS WHO Behind the scenes of How they will miss out... previous instructions (2015-16) recent panel decisions Pinsent Masons, DLA Piper, Ashurst and Bird & Bird have all missed out on William Commercial litigationCorporate tax Employment Health and safetyIT and telecomsGaming and bettingPlanning Intellectual propertyAviation Corporate andMergers commercial and acquisitionsBank lending Capital markets Hill’s latest UK adviser panel, with Linklaters and Addleshaw Goddard the only firms to retain their places on the FTSE 250 bookmaker’s slimmed-down roster. Pinsent Masons (August 2017, legalbusiness.co.uk) Ashurst UK supermarket and retailer Sainsbury’s Group has appointed 11 firms to its new legal DLA Piper panel, including Linklaters, Addleshaw Goddard, Dentons and CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang. The panel, which was last reviewed in 2014, previously included Bond Bird & Bird Dickinson, DWF and Gowling WLG. (August 2017, legalbusiness.co.uk) HSBC has appointed around ten firms to its UK legal banking panel. Addleshaw Goddard, Eversheds Sutherland and Simmons & Simmons were among those which made the cut. CMS Cameron McKenna, Dentons and Pinsent Masons are also among the roster which was reduced in size. (July 2017, legalbusiness.co.uk) Product liabilityIntellectual propertyBrand managementEnvironment Commercial property:Trade marks retail Debt recovery Corporate tax Planning Spanish banking giant Santander has appointed a host of firms including Slaughter and May, Bond Dickinson Ashurst and Reed Smith to its UK legal panel for three years. (July 2017, legalbusiness.co.uk) DWF Gowling WLG Aaron & Partners Gateley Plc Pitmans Addleshaw Goddard Geldards Prettys Solicitors Ashfords gunnercooke Rollits Ashton KCJ Harrison Clark Rickerbys Shoosmiths Birketts Hewitsons Sintons Law 49 Bond Dickinson Hill Dickinson Squire Patton Boggs Brachers hlw Keeble Hawson Stevens & Bolton LAW FIRMS Browne Jacobson Howes Percival Thomas Eggar Banking and financeProperty litigationProperty financeSecuritisation Capital marketsBank lending Asset-based lendingAcquisition financeEnvironmentEmployment Construction Projects and energyCorporate INSTRUCTED FOR Burges Salmon Irwin Mitchell Thrings Insolvency/restructuring BANKING AND Clarke Willmott Kuit Steinart Levy TLT Pinsent FINANCE WORK IN Masons 2016 BY SANTANDER Cripps Mills & Reeve Trethowans DAC Beachcroft Muckle Veale Wasbrough Vizards CMS DLA Piper Nabarro Walker Morris DWF Nelsons Solicitors Ltd Ward Hadaway Dentons EMW Osborne Clarke Wright Hassall Foot Anstey Paris Smith Freeths Penningtons Manches 38 | GC | GCMAGAZINE.COM GCMAGAZINE.COM | GC | 39.

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