Regional development agency Yorkshire Forward has completed an adviser review which has seen Nabarro lose its place on the organisation's legal panel.

The agency has split its adviser roster in two, with Eversheds, Hammonds, Pinsent Masons, Cobbetts, Walker Morris and Addleshaw Goddard appointed to the main legal panel.

The six firms were reappointed following a competitive tender process, with Nabarro the only former panel firm not to be reappointed.

The panel will focus on the agency's project work and provide advice in relation to a number of practice areas including corporate, commercial and real estate.

The agency has also created a second panel made up of three local firms – Sheffield-based Wake Smith & Tofields and Taylor & Emmet and Leeds-based Clarion Solicitors.

The second panel will focus on non-project related work and small-scale litigation, while providing support to Yorkshire Forward's in-house team.

The new panels took effect from 1 April for a three-year duration, with an optional one-year extension.

Yorkshire Forward's strategic legal services manager Gareth Venables, who led the review, commented: "We recently completed a new procurement process to refine the panel and redefine our relationships with the firms on it, fit for us going forward."

He added: "A significant part of our remit is to promote economic recovery of the region and the professional services sector is one we take a lead in supporting. We wanted to take advantage of local services available to us in addition to the larger firms we use."