General Electric (GE) has completed an overhaul of its US panel of advisers, ditching 44 firms and adding 12 new names to the roster.

The international conglomerate, which has one of the largest in-house legal departments in the world, has axed 15 litigation firms and 13 US regional firms – including Armstrong Teasdale and Fox Rothschild – from its from its roster, which handles all of GE’s legal work in the US.