Gowling WLG has picked up a contract with the Ministry of Defence (MoD) worth up to £2.9 million.

The contract will hand Gowling between £592,000 and £2.9 million worth of work over four years and kicked off last week (May 13).

As part of the deal, Gowling will assist the MoD and the Secretary of State for Defence, the Rt Hon Penny Mordaunt MP, on matters including how to use legal input to minimise costs and maximise efficiency.

Gowling has been an adviser to the MoD for 20 years, according to the firm's website.

A document from the MoD showed that Gowling submitted its tender on 8 April 2019, followed by an oral presentation later that month.

According to information obtained by a freedom of information request last year, legal fees for the MoD's biggest legal billers fell by more than 80% in 2017.

Elsewhere, Gowling was also one of five firms to have been recently appointed to the Insolvency Service's (IS) first legal panel in five years.

The IS – an executive agency of the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy – also appointed Womble Bond Dickinson, Howes Percival, TLT and Mills & Reeve to its two-year panel.