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- Burges Salmon LLP (Bristol)
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- Bond Pearce LLP (Bristol, Plymouth)
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- Bevan Brittan LLP (Bristol)
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Burges Salmon LLP’s ‘exceptionally gifted and able’ team represents clients including the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority and International Power. It also advised Helius CoRDe on its landmark biomass project in Scotland, and Marks and Spencer on its Plan A sustainability programme. Recommended individuals include team head Ross Fairley and Ian Salter.
Osborne Clarke is ‘excellent across the board’, and highlighted for its ‘great senior involvement in the details of transactions’. The team acted for the project vehicle in the Gwynt-y-Môr wind power project off the North Wales coast. Team head David Ferris is ‘superb at high level and in the detail, with good commercial judgement’.
Bond Pearce LLP’s Luke Gabb is a respected name in the energy field and acts for clients including East Anglia Offshore Wind, RWE npower and Petrofac. Advice is ‘suited to the client’s needs and given with authority’.
Clarke Willmott LLP provides ‘a very good level of service’, and attracted numerous new clients in 2011, including Isle of Anglesey Council, New Earth Solutions Group and Thames Water Utilities. Solar and wind energy have been key growth areas for the team, which acted for Fred Olsen Renewables on two of its major new wind farm projects in Scotland. Priscilla Hall heads the practice team, and Peter O’Brien joined from Osborne Clarke.
TLT LLP has a notable client base, with Britannia Solar and EvoEnergy recently joining established clients such as Triodos Bank and EDF Energy. The team acted for The Green Home Company on the corporate, financing, property and construction aspects of its major solar photovoltaic project for schools and the residential market. ‘Brilliantly skilled’ team head Maria Connolly will ‘go to the wall’ for her clients.
Chris Jarman’s team at Bevan Brittan LLP focuses on three main areas: renewable energy, on-site energy generation and efficiency, and energy from waste. It acted for Birmingham City Council on the Birmingham Energy Savers Delivery Partner Project, and for Viridor Waste Management on the Oxfordshire Waste PPP energy-from-waste project.
Stephens Scown LLP is ‘very swift, very efficient and competent’, and has acted on various significant solar energy projects for large landowners, as well as handling panel work for wind developers. Sonya Bedford is ‘excellent in any situation’.
Murrell Associates is ‘a City firm in Cornwall’ and has extensive experience in renewables, including solar photovoltaic, solar thermal and onshore wind projects. Hugh Murrell has ‘a vast amount of experience and the level-headedness to oversee all projects’.
Project finance and PFI
Project finance and PFI
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Ashfords LLP (Exeter) - Bevan Brittan LLP (Bristol)
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- Michelmores LLP (Exeter)
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Ashfords LLP has strengths in waste and renewables, and acts for clients including Vinci Construction and Viridor Waste Management. It also acted for key client Balfour Beatty on the North-West Fire and Rescue Services PFI project, involving the construction of several new fire stations. Elizabeth Gibson leads the five-partner group.
Sharon Renouf’s six-partner team at Bevan Brittan LLP is well known for public sector work. Clients include Ryhurst and the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. It also advised Viridor Waste Management on the Oxfordshire Waste PPP project, and REGENTER on the £130m Oldham Housing PFI project.
Burges Salmon LLP is known for its infrastructure, defence, emergency services and education work. It advised the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority on the appointment of the parent body organisation for the decommissioning of the Dounreay nuclear site, and also represents the Ministry of Defence and Babcock. Team head Mark Paterson is recommended.
Osborne Clarke’s six-partner group acts for clients including Kier, and its work spans defence, security, waste to energy, renewables and student accommodation. It acted for Babcock International Group on the building of a CHP plant on land at HM Naval Base Devonport. The ‘very visible’ Chris Wade and Phil Davies are recommended.
DAC Beachcroft LLP is well known for its ‘first-class’ health expertise. It acted for Barts and the London NHS Trust on the New Hospitals PFI project, and for Minerva Education and Training on the variation of a PFI scheme for an MoD sixth-form college. Malcolm Austwick’s ‘knowledge of PFI and commercial matters is extensive’.
Carol McCormack OBE’s team at Michelmores LLP has experience across the defence, education, health and emergency services sectors. It also advised HM Treasury on a workspace optimisation project.
Veale Wasbrough Vizards was strengthened by the arrival of a new team head in ‘immensely impressive’ procurement specialist David Hansom, who joined from Eversheds LLP. The team provides ‘pragmatic, commercial advice’ to many public sector clients and local authorities, and acted for the UK Department for Business, Innovation and Skills on a significant shared services centre project.
Bond Pearce LLP’s Charles Robson is recommended.
TLT LLP’s team head Simon Goss is recommended, and Neel Mehta was made up to partner in 2011.
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Supreme Court provides guidance on forum conveniens and piercing the corporate veil
Macfarlanes LLP currently authors the Litigation & Dispute Resolution section of The In-House Lawyer magazine. For more information and articles from this author click here . This article considers the Supreme Court decision in VTB Capital plc v Nutritek International Corp & or s [2013]. Perhaps the most striking aspect of the case is that it casts doubt on the notion that the Court has the power to pierce the corporate veil. The Supreme Court also held that, even if the power to pierce the corporate veil does exist, it does not enable a claimant to hold parties that control a company jointly and severally liable under contracts entered into by that company.
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Penningtons establishes pensions team with two senior lateral hires
Penningtons Solicitors LLP has recruited partner Maria Riccio and associate Rupert Graham-Evans to lead its newly established pensions law team. Working between the firm's Hampshire and London offices, they will also support Penningtons' regional offices across Cambridge and the South East, advising clients in the UK and internationally. -
III St. Petersburg International Legal Forum
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Bedell Trust appoints experienced Trust Practitioner in London
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Bedell advise AXA Real Estate on CISX listed UK REIT for £472m Ropemaker Place Acquisition
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Clinical negligence 'rising star' joins Penningtons' Cambridge team
Penningtons Solicitors LLP is delighted to announce the appointment of Guy Forster as an associate in its nationally recognised specialist clinical negligence team. Guy has moved from Irwin Mitchell in Birmingham to head the clinical negligence team in Penningtons’ Cambridge office. -
Penningtons teams up with Innotech to support UK technology sector
Penningtons Solicitors LLP is sponsoring the Innotech Summit 2013, one of the UK’s leading technology business events. Taking place at Level39 in Canary Wharf on Friday 26 April, this year’s event aims to provide a platform to connect investors, tech entrepreneurs and game changing technologies in order to help develop tech start ups throughout the country. -
Penningtons named in Top 25 Most Admired Companies list
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Penningtons advises on sale of WG Healthcare to US market leader
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Penningtons secures further Solicitors Regulation Authority panel role
Penningtons Solicitors LLP's professional regulation team has been reappointed to the panel of law firms selected by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) to advise on disciplinary proceedings and regulatory appeals following a formal tender process. -
Ex-Stringfellows dancer set to appeal Court of Appeal Judgment
Nadine Quashie, a former dancer with Stringfellow Restaurants Limited is set to appeal today’s Court of Appeal decision which reverses the Employment Appeal Tribunal finding where Ms Quashie had won her legal battle for employment rights.