FTSE 250 sports betting and gaming group GVC Holdings has appointed 11 firms, including three of the Magic Circle, to its first ever formal legal panel.

Several of the firms on the panel are longtime advisers of either GVC or the companies it has taken over in recent years, which include bwin, Foxy Bingo, and most recently Ladbrokes Coral in 2017. But the combined company had a sprawling informal roster of about 40 firms that it wanted to slim down.