Public housing authority Homes England has kicked off its first panel review for four years, inviting firms to pitch for £47m worth of business. The new amount sees the value of this panel increase by more than half, rising 56 per cent from its current £30m value. This marks the first time in eight years […]
The Pension Protection Fund has finalised its panel review, with six firms being appointed to the roster, including two new ones. CMS and Addleshaw Goddard are the two additions to the list. Other firms that were selected previously served on its 2017 panel, including Gowling WLG, Herbert Smith Freehills, Hogan Lovells and Osborne Clarke. The […]
A legal panel offering discounted rates to over 220 public bodies has been extended, with three firms being added onto the roster. The EM Lawshare Framework, valued at £70m, has added DWF, Capsticks and Trowers & Hamlins to its list of legal partners for the next four years. They join the seven existing firms on […]
A scorecard evaluating four law firms involved in a UK Government mandate has been disclosed in public records. An award letter seen by The Lawyer for a £1.5m contract around the rail reform programme laid bare the score attributed by the Department for Transport to Ashurst, Addleshaw Goddard, Eversheds Sutherland and Linklaters as part of […]
Fourteen firms have been told they have secured places on the UK Government’s general advice roster, after a last-minute challenge meant the announcement was delayed. Womble Bond Dickinson has now withdrawn its claim against the UK Government, in which it had contested the final line-up of the roster. A Part 7 claim had been filed […]
Clifford Chance, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Linklaters have lost their spots on one of the UK Government’s main legal panels, as the new roster becomes public. The three firms have been staples of the finance and complex panel for years, a roster of law firms that advise on corporate finance to UK Government departments and […]
Womble Bond Dickinson has filed a claim against the UK Government over the result of its legal advice panel, The Lawyer has learned. It is understood that the firm is contesting the final line-up of the roster. Sources told The Lawyer that the firm has fallen off the list, with its challenge resulting in the […]
TLT is setting up a public inquiries team that will be led by a senior lawyer who joins from the Government Legal Department (GLD). Zaqia Rashid is moving to the UK firm as a partner, with her arrival forming part of TLT’s growing ambition to land more mandates from the UK Government. Her move follows […]
The Department of International Trade has injected an additional £15m into its upcoming aerospace and defence legal panel, bringing its value up to £40m. The department is running the tender process to firm up external legal advisers for the roster on behalf of the UK Export Finance (UKEF), the governmental export trading agency. In January, […]
The UK Government has re-appointed Clifford Chance as its legal adviser for the Covid-19 vaccine rollout, with the value of the firm’s mandate rising by a third. The magic circle firm was selected last year by the Business Energy and Industrial Strategy department to help the governmental taskforce overseeing manufacturing centres and the distribution of […]
Hogan Lovells has won a £1m contract to advise the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy on the financial consequences of the gas supply crisis. The transatlantic firm will help BEIS with legal support in relation to the hurdles faced by UK gas suppliers, which are likely to require Government response in coming months […]
TLT, McDermott Will & Emery and Canadian firm Borden Ladner Gervais have won a competition within the UK Government trade panel to advise on a spate of post-Brexit transatlantic commercial agreements. The contract is valued at £7m, with a term of 36 months and one optional 12-month extension. Last January, the three firms won a […]