Eversheds and Hammonds have won prime roles on the Northwest Regional Development Agency's (NWDA) new-look panel.

The NWDA has overhauled its panel, moving away from a single roster comprising six law firms to four separate rosters covering corporate, real estate, litigation and state aid work.

Eversheds and Hammonds are the only firms to make it onto all four new panels, although the six previous advisers – Beachcroft, Forshaws Solicitors, Mace & Jones and Platt & Fishwick in addition to Eversheds and Hammonds – all sit on at least one of the rosters.

They join new additions Pinsent Masons and Cobbetts, which have won places on two and three panels respectively. Pinsents sits on the corporate and litigation panels, while Cobbetts sits on the corporate, real estate and state aid rosters.

The panel appointments came into effect this month and will last for four years.

Eversheds, which has worked with the NWDA for 11 years, pitched for the work with a team led by partners Kuljeet Hothi (commercial) and Paul Hothi (regeneration).

Kuljeet Hothi said: "This appointment cements our position in the northwest, working on high-profile projects that make an impact on the region."

The NWDA helps economic growth and regeneration in England's northwest region.