Historic England has appointed four firms to its £2m panel. Bevan Brittan and Trowers & Hamlins have won a place on the public body’s new panel, while Burges Salmon and Womble Bond Dickinson have been reappointed. The previous panel was made up of ten firms, with Shoosmiths, Freeths and Sharpe Pritchard among those losing a […]
The Government Legal Department (GLD) has spent nearly 24 per cent more on its lawyers compared to last year, The Lawyer can reveal. In a Freedom of Information request, the GLD confirmed it had forked out £18.5m on external law firms and counsel between 1 January 2021 and 30 June 2021. According to the report, […]
The Crown Commercial Service (CCS) has started the procurement for the next line-up of advisers of its rail legal services panel, with a value of £80m. The CCS will sign a new agreement for the provision of rail legal services used by the UK governmental departments, with the main buyer being the Department for Transport […]
Three firms have been selected by a HM Treasury body to provide legal support on Covid-19 matters. Clifford Chance has been selected as the primary supplier to UK Government Investments (UKGI), a corporate governance and corporate finance group that is owned by the HM Treasury. Coming out top in the tender, Clifford Chance will advise […]
The Crown Commercial Service (CCS) has launched a review of its £200m public sector legal services panel. The current panel is made up of 69 firms, divided into six lots: regional service provision; full service firms – England & Wales; full service firms – Scotland; full service firms – Northern Ireland; property & construction; transport […]
The London Universities Purchasing Consortium (LUPC) has concluded its £30m panel review with 17 firms scoring a place. .The latest panel, which was launched in August 2020, sees seven additional firms appointed following the LUPC’s last review in 2017. Firms to have won a place include Addleshaw Goddard, BLM, DAC Beachcroft and Pinsent Masons while […]
The Metropolitan Police Service has assembled its new £65m panel, a year and a half after the review kicked off. Though the Met initially said it was looking for up to 15 firms, nine have scored a place including new appointments DAC Beachcroft, DWF and Blake Morgan. The other firms are: Capsticks, Gowling WLG, Michelmores, […]
Clarion Housing Group is seeking firms for a new £40m panel, which will span the course of a decade. Clarion is the largest social housing group in the UK with 350,000 residents living in its homes. It is also a member of the G15 group of London’s biggest landlords. The selected firms will provide legal […]
Firms pitching for places on the UK Government’s legal panels are weighing up their options around charge-out fees, amid concerns over how much they may be expected to discount. With a late June deadline looming large for firms wishing to apply to the general legal advice and finance and complex legal services panels, sources told The […]
Linklaters has grossed over £3m as part of a railway contract with the UK Government’s Department for Transport, the latest mandate to be won by the magic circle firm. The magic circle firm provided advice on the UK Government’s £7.5bn Intercity Express Programme, a project that began in 2017. The paperwork, signed four years ago, was […]
Historic England is looking to shrink its panel down to four firms as part of its latest review. The public body, which cares for England’s historic environment is sourcing, ideally, a maximum of four firms for its new £2m panel. In 2017, Historic England tripled the size of its panel to ten firms including Womble Bond […]
Dentons has won two lucrative UK Government mandates whose combined value is worth around £9.5m. The contracts relate to two different mandates for the Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) and HM Treasury. However, they stem from Dentons’ role within the Government’s wider Finance and Complex Legal Services (FaCLS) panel. The HM Treasury […]