UK-based private equity giant 3i has held a panel review for its major advisers in France following a decision to focus on top-end work in Europe.

The venture capital fund is set to appoint New York’s Willkie Farr & Gallagher and the London giant Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer to join existing Paris-based niche advisers Santoni Paccioni & Associes, Orsay and NomoS on its French panel.