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 […]
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, […]