Often highly sensitive and always complicated, successful public-private partnerships require deep technical knowledge and strong relationships. Having worked on more than 100 PPPs, we know what it takes to set up these partnerships effectively and how to step in to solve operational challenges on existing projects.
The team includes several lawyers with over 20 years of experience in the UK PFI sector, two of whom have been involved since the inception of the sector in the 1990s, and one of whom who advised on the UK’s last PFI to reach financial close and the UK’s first PF2 project. Since the end of the PFI and PF2 programmes, the team have remained active in private finance models principally through the student and energy sectors, meaning we have remained abreast of current financing and bankability issues.
The team’s activity is now focussed on operational support, including major variations and dispute support. We also have live instructions on projects preparing for handback and expiry. Given increasing market commentary, the team is monitoring the prospects for the development of a new model for privately financed UK social infrastructure, perhaps as a successor to, or evolution of, models such as PFI, PF2, NHS LIFT, Scotland NPD and Wales MIM.
Our clients are drawn from the public sector (central and local Government and the NHS), investors and project companies, funders and contractors.
We have valuable cross-sector experience, specialising in education, defence, health, social housing, blue light, waste, transport, energy and detention.
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