Local government

We have over 125 lawyers working for government organisations including local authorities. This involves specialists across all major service areas.

• Ipswich Borough Council on the powers to establish a wholly-owned subsidiary trading company to exercise the power to trade and, in particular, to undertake appropriate property investments. Advising on loan financing and procurement aspects related to transaction.
• Navigating through legal issues when providing additional funding and support to subsidiary company, including releasing overage arrangements in favour of a local authority.
• St Edmundsbury Borough Council on the £80 million redevelopment of the former Bury St Edmunds cattle market.
• Chelmsford City Council on property investment and development transactions on plans for the investment by the Council in improvements to the Station Square in Chelmsford.
• Supporting a London Borough through the entire re-procurement of its IT function in inter-dependent procurement processes, including core IT, HR/payroll and disaster recovery and data centre services.
• Advising authorities on procurement and state aid compliance in construction, infrastructure and regeneration projects undertaken by clients right across the public sector, including in central and local government, regulators, executive agencies of government, NDPBs, universities and NHS organisations.
• Breckland District Council on development financing for a residential development pursuant to the Council’s joint venture with a local developer.  We drafted loan and security documents and reviewed joint venture arrangements.

We act for a number of local authorities on a variety of matters. Clients having received our legal advice include:

• Ipswich Borough Council
• St Edmundsbury Borough Council
• Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council
• South Kesteven District Council
• Norfolk County Council
• Cambridgeshire County Council
• Luton Borough Council

• Property matters blog: regular updates and commentary on the latest legal news in the ever changing world of real estate.
• Our procurement portal: a "one stop shop" for procurement law queries and advice.
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