Sixteen firms including Eversheds, Pinsent Masons and Kennedys have won spots on the first panel of advisers assembled by the London Boroughs Legal Alliance (LBLA).

The firms will be appointed for three years to provide legal services to six London boroughs – Camden, Harrow, Hammersmith & Fulham, Hillingdon and Hounslow London Borough Councils and the Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea – which have clubbed together to pool their legal services in a bid to reduce legal costs.