A raft of City firms have won places on Societe Generale’s (SocGen’s) global legal panel, in a review that has seen Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, White & Case and Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe lose out.

The bank has cut the number of global panel firms from nine to eight with Paul Hastings Janofsky & Walker and Salans winning places on the roster. The process has also seen Allen & Overy, Clifford Chance, Gide Loyrette Nouel, Shearman & Sterling, Linklaters and Norton Rose re-appointed.