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We help clients in Professional and Public Services by offering practical solutions shaped by our strong expertise in a range of specialisms including corporate and commercial contracts, funding, planning, and project management. With international experience and offices across the globe, we advise on commercial, regulatory, cross border and cultural challenges. This helps us reduce risks and create more opportunities for our clients.
Our advisers act on domestic and international projects of all shapes and sizes, working with many of the leading names across this diverse sector. Browse our experience below, or use the filters to look-up recent work in particular geographies and legal disciplines.
Carrying out a a comprehensive contract review project for a multinational foodservice company, including AI analysis of contractual terms and preparation of a contract register.
Advised The London Borough of Barnet a local authority on the disposal of land in London through a conditional agreement for lease, facilitating a residential-led development and a long-term leaseback arrangement.
Advised a global insurance sector professional services group on a multi-jurisdictional restructuring involving transfers of ownership interests and intra-group reorganisations.
Advising Cumberland Council on a proposed 10,000-home new settlement at Carlisle, including stewardship and delivery structures, development corporation options, land assembly, infrastructure delivery planning and local plan policies. Advising on governance, equalisation and business case development to support long-term delivery and management of the new town.
Advised a cultural goods collector, on the provenance review of 104 pieces stored in London, assessing compliance with European Union Regulation 2019/880, which governs the introduction and import of cultural goods into the EU, for their planned importation and housing in Italy.
Advised FTI Consulting, a business advisory firm in its capacity as administrators of the CX Lavender group, on the sale of the company's key client-related business and associated workforce to Omnicom Oceania via its subsidiary, Clemenger BBDO Pty Ltd.
Advised Alstom Southern Africa Holdings, a majority shareholder in a South African transport consortium, on a High Court application involving a shareholder dispute regarding the operations of a locomotive supply entity.
Advised the Isle of Man Government, on the development of data foundations to support digital transformation and economic growth, including the design of institutional structures, governance arrangements and operating models to enable trusted cross-sector data sharing. We explored how data assets could be managed as strategic national infrastructure while maintaining public trust.
Providing UAE law expert evidence before the DIFC Courts.
Advised the management team of Knovia, one of the UK’s leading apprenticeship and vocational training providers, on the terms of the MBO by Eureka Education, backed by French PE firm, Naxicap Partners.
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Partner, Head of Client Relationships, Professional and Public Services
EmailSimon leads large scale transactions in the technology and telecoms sectors.
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EmailRob has significant experience on M&A and private capital transactions, acting for investors, management teams and portfolio companies across the private equity life cycle, including bolt on M&A, exits and continuation fund investments, focusing on the professional services and wealth management sectors.
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EmailAmy advises on solvent and insolvent restructuring, provides board duties advice, assists purchasers to buy insolvent businesses, supports funders on their debt positions, navigates supply chain distress for customers and acts for insolvency practitioners on all aspects of formal insolvency appointments.
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EmailBridget specialises in technology procurement and sourcing projects involving tech-enabled services or with an outsourcing component.
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EmailRichard co-leads our Garden Communities team, advising on over 30 Garden Communities across the UK. He specialises in the full life cycle for Garden Communities projects, and Locally Led New Town Development Corporations and other delivery vehicles. With Stewardship, he advises on data trusts for Garden Communities to achieve ESG outcomes.
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EmailRichard is the trusted adviser to several UHNW individuals and families in respect of all their interests, from running a de-facto private office, to their acquisitions and refurbishments of historic houses to advising on their art collections.
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EmailMichael leads a team that represent a wide and varied client base including leading trust companies and corporate service providers, trustees, family offices, beneficiaries, HNW and UHNW individuals (and their corporates) in a broad range of heavyweight commercial, trust and family disputes.
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EmailBryn is a chartered accountant and chartered tax advisor who advises large businesses on all indirect tax issues including VAT, IPT and customs duties. He primarily advises large financial institutions and TMT clients including FinTech.
Orbital has built specific workflows for Scottish commercial real estate work, built around Scots Law and Scottish real estate practice
Multinational law firm Pinsent Masons has advised Penta Real Estate on its investment into a landmark £230 million-plus joint venture with Staycity Group and advised the joint venture on the financing arrangements for the development, which will deliver a 350-room Wilde aparthotel in the heart of London's Farringdon district.
Multinational law firm Pinsent Masons has advised manufacturing companies PROXMUS and Promus on the sale of their businesses to CGH Innovation, one of Europe’s leading manufacturers of steel tanks and a portfolio company of H.I.G. Capital, a global private equity firm headquartered in Miami.
Simon Colvin
Partner, Head of Client Relationships, Professional and Public Services
