Your challenges
The public sector is subject to continual changes to its structures and legal frameworks, while facing ongoing pressures to improve public services, demonstrate value for money and cut costs. Public sector bodies need lawyers who can work with them across all areas to achieve their public service goals within their legal powers and deliver workable business solutions.
There are immense pressures on public sector budgets as well as a drive for greater quality and efficiency, be that in the provision of local services, education, health or housing. This requires advice that combines public sector knowledge with private sector experience.
Achieving your ambitions
Our multi-disciplinary public sector team works with central and local government, government agencies, regulators, educational institutions and NHS bodies. We are public law experts with a well established track record in partnership working and we are able to combine a broad range of disciplines seamlessly to deliver practical and workable solutions to the myriad of specialist issues you are likely to face. For example, our corporate lawyers might work with your education professionals on a spinout company for a university. Our health sector lawyers will combine with your employment advisers to deal with a hospital’s outsourcing of cleaning services and our local authority property lawyers will work closely with your property professionals to help bring forward a regeneration project.
Whatever your needs, our understanding of the public sector and commercial know-how is second to none and, working together, we can help you to achieve your goals.