{"id":8319,"date":"2008-08-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-07T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"top-firms-line-up-as-socgen-kicks-off-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/08\/2008\/top-firms-line-up-as-socgen-kicks-off-review.html","title":{"rendered":"Top firms line up as SocGen kicks off review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Legal Week &#8211; French banking giant Societe Generale (SocGen) is reviewing its global panel of legal advisers, with a raft of City and international firms applying to be considered.  <\/p>\n<p>Firms will be appointed to the panel for a three-year period starting on 1 January, 2009, with the initial deadline for applications closing at the end of last month. <\/p>\n<p>SocGen general counsel Frederic de Brouwer and deputy head of legal for Europe, competition law and group legal David Bourdon are understood to be co-ordinating the review. <\/p>\n<p>The latest review will be SocGen&rsquo;s third, as it only drew up its first formal panel in 2003 before remodelling it during the last review process. <\/p>\n<p>The bank last updated its advisers in 2006 when it added Linklaters and Orrick Herrington &amp; Sutcliffe to its nine-firm global roster. The pair joined Allen &amp; Overy, Clifford Chance, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Gide Loyrette Nouel, Norton Rose, Shearman &amp; Sterling and White &amp; Case on the list of preferred advisers. <\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/www.legalweek.com\/Articles\/1152443\/Top%2Bfirms%2Bline%2Bup%2Bas%2BSocGen%2Bkicks%2Boff%2Breview.html\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Legal Week &#8211; French banking giant Societe Generale (SocGen) is reviewing its global panel of legal advisers, with a raft of City and international firms applying to be considered. Firms will be appointed to the panel for a three-year period [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[401,2001],"class_list":["post-8319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-barings","tag-sumitomo-corp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8319\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}