Hewlett Packard (HP) has put together a new global legal panel, with US law firms featuring heavily among those selected to advise the company over the next three years.

Baker & McKenzie, Gibson Dunn & Crutcher, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton and Cravath Swaine & Moore are among the firms to have been appointed to the roster alongside magic circle representative Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer. The firms will provide international advice to the technology giant, which has operations in 170 jurisdictions.

Fellow US firm Dewey & LeBoeuf, a longstanding HP adviser, is understood to have pitched but has not been retained.

The global panel will operate in addition to HP's recently reviewed EMEA panel, which was formed in May this year. That process saw Freshfields, Bakers and Bird & Bird appointed to a line-up comprising fewer than 10 firms, with Bird & Bird's selection marking a first-time appointment.

The global line-up will advise across practice areas including banking and finance, corporate, securities, M&A, compliance, environmental, litigation, employment and real estate, although the company will retain the ability to instruct specialist firms for specific projects and geographies.

One adviser commented: "We have acted for HP mainly on corporate and litigation, but the appointment gives us the opportunity to win work across the board."

HP also works with firms including Eversheds and Shoosmiths in the UK, while outside Europe it uses firms including Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati.

The new-look panel comes just under three months after HP's much-touted takeover of Britain's largest software company Autonomy in a deal worth £7.1bn. Gibson Dunn took the lead for HP alongside Freshfields, while Slaughter and May advised Autonomy.