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Bevan Brittan LLP’s team is headed by the ‘outstanding’ Bethan Evans, and has an enviable reputation. Areas of expertise include shared services, outsourcing, asset rationalisation, employment, and probity and standards. Clients include Bristol City Council, Plymouth City Council, Cornwall Council and Stroud District Council. Peter Keith-Lucas is ‘highly admired’.

Ashfords LLP’s ‘excellent’ team has ‘demonstrable expertise’ in many areas. It advised Shepway District Council in negotiating a s106 agreement concerning a proposed runway extension and a new terminal at an airport. Other clients include Torbay Council and Lambeth LBC. Team head John Bosworth gives ‘sound advice, and is calm and unflappable’.

Giles Taylor heads the team at Beachcroft, which also includes Tom Baker. The group advised Somerset County Council on the procurement of a leisure facility, and advises key client Dorset County Council on procurement, contracts and litigation.

Bond Pearce LLP has been assisting Reading Borough Council on the redevelopment of Chatham Street, and advised new client Greenwich LBC on a £35m district heating project. Richard Guyatt and practice head Jonathan Bower are recommended.

Ben Pariser’s team at Clarke Willmott LLP advised South West of England RDA on the 55-acre Bristol and Bath Science Park regeneration scheme, and Stroud District Council on the Brimscombe Port regeneration project. Other clients include London and Kent Boroughs Consortium. Stephen Rosser is highly recommended.

Michelmores LLP’s group is led by Carol McCormack OBE, and acts on matters including construction, contracts, employment, IT and outsourcing. The group acts for West Dorset District Council on many of its s106 agreements, and advised the London Borough of Islington on a proposed redevelopment. Other clients include Devon County Council.

Burges Salmon LLP’s cross-departmental group provides an ‘excellent, tailor-made’ service, with expertise in planning, commercial property, procurement and contracts. Gary Soloman is ‘knowledgeable and experienced’.

Davitt Jones Bould acts on many planning and property matters for local authorities, recently advising Wirral MBC on a dispute with the Crown Estate over the ownership of foreshore at Wallasey, and Wiltshire Council on a disposal of land at Marlborough. Madeleine Davitt heads the team, which has gained a raft of new local and central government clients.

Pinsent Masons LLP acted for Bournemouth BC on its LABV for the phased delivery of regeneration across 16 sites in Bournemouth town centre. Other clients include Bath and North East Somerset Council. Mark Collingwood heads the team.

Veale Wasbrough Vizards’ Simon Baker ‘exudes professionalism and expertise’, and heads a team that is ‘acute, well grounded and committed to the client’. It is now on the panel of six Oxfordshire local authorities.

Follett Stock’s Richard Scrase heads a notable public law litigation group that has acted on several high-profile matters in the South West.

Foot Anstey provides an ‘excellent level of service’ to clients such as Torbay Council and Cornwall Council. Gareth Pinwell heads the team, and Mark Chanter offers ‘confident and honest’ advice.

Pierce Glynn Solicitors’ Adam Hundt has a notable practice representing claimants in public authority litigation.

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