Your challenges
If you have an existing PFI or PPP project you may well be facing challenges in operating it effectively to your benefit. Payment mechanisms, benchmarking, market testing and variations are all common areas of potential disputes between the public and private sectors and need handling carefully to ensure that the parties’ long term relationship does not suffer.
If you are an investor in such projects you will want to maximise your return, which may involve a secondary market transaction.
Achieving your ambitions
We are recognised as one of the UK’s most highly regarded projects practices. We are committed to helping you operate your PFI and PPP projects successfully. We appreciate that contracts will last for many years and the parties will have an interest in preserving a good relationship during the contract but that differences will occur and need swift resolution. We also have experience on acting on secondary market transactions.
We have particular strengths in waste, defence, health, education, student accommodation, detention and local authority projects.
The strength you need
Our dedicated projects team of fourteen lawyers advises the public sector and private sector operators on the whole range of issues that arise during the construction and operational phases of projects. We have acted on several large scale variations, potential disputes on payment mechanisms and complex issues on benchmarking and market testing provisions.
Lawyers you can trust
Our team is highly rated by Chambers and Legal 500. We act for household names such as the Ministry of Defence, the Aviva Group, many NHS trusts and universities and private sector operators in a range of sectors such as waste, Building Schools for the Future (BSF), NHS LIFT, detention and local authority sectors. We provide clear, concise and jargon-free advice.