Herbert Smith, Pinsent Masons, Eversheds and Farrer & Co have won places on the Southbank Centre’s first legal panels, which cover property and planning work; employment and pensions; and commercial and other legal services.

Pinsent Masons has been appointed to all three rosters, joining one other firm on each. Herbert Smith joins Pinsents on the property panel, and is understood to be the primary adviser, while Farrers and Eversheds sit alongside Pinsents on the commercial and employment panels respectively.