Linklaters, Mayer Brown and Travers Smith are among a clutch of 25 firms to have won places on AIG’s legal panel, as the insurance group announces the creation of a new centre to manage its EMEA legal advisers.

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and US headquartered firms Morrison & Foerster and Chadbourne & Parke have also taken places on the panel , which covers its claims and corporate legal panels for the UK and its nine largest European operations.