Bevan Brittan LLP

Managing Partner: Duncan Weir

Senior Partner: Jodie Sinclair

Number of UK Partners: 107

Number of other UK Fee-earners: 314

Contacts

Commercial & Infrastructure: Jonathan Turner

Health & Care: Tim Hodgetts

Employment, Pensions & Immigration: Jodie Sinclair

Litigation, Advisory & Regulatory: Adam Kendall

Property: Rob Harrison

The firm

Bevan Brittan is a UK national law firm with 107 Partners and 788 employees supporting around 1,900 clients from offices in Birmingham, Bristol, Leeds and London. It advises businesses across construction, energy & resource management, higher education, and financial services sectors, complementing its market leadership within housing, local government and health and social care.

Principal areas of work

As a major UK commercial law firm, Bevan Brittan provides a full range of commercial legal and advisory services, including commercial contracting, corporate transactions, governance, property, commercial and clinical litigation, regulatory and employment law.

Market expertise

Over the last 12-months, Bevan Brittan supported clients across its chosen markets.

In Energy & Resource Management, advising Boom Power on a 400MW solar farm in East Yorkshire, East Sussex Waste Partnership on a multimillion pound contract extension with Biffa, Hackney Council on its pioneering solar panel project and the Crown Commercial Service on its scheme to simplify the procurement of electric vehicle infrastructure for local authorities.

Central & Local Government led on projects including a £119m investment in education and training for Cardiff and Vale College and Welsh Government, and were successful in a landmark High Court appeal for The Ramblers to protect public right of way.

Housing advised Platform Housing Group on its annual Euro Medium Term Note (EMTN) Programme, which has been doubled to £2 billion to provide future funding for sustainability initiatives.  We also supported housing provider VIVID on a new £100 million facility agreement with HSBC.

Bevan Brittan’s market-leading health specialists worked on a wide range of deals including a trio of acquisitions for Mysa Care, investment manager Downing’s first acquisitions in the neuro-rehabilitation care home sector and a new major care village project in Surrey on behalf of CHD Living.

Additionally the business provided pro bono advice to the Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine on a landmark anonymity ruling, were reappointed to the Financial Conduct Authority’s Legal Services Framework, acted for Canal and River Trust on a multimillion pound land sale, and secured a place on University of Essex’s legal services framework.

Responsible Business

Increased investment in Responsible Business has led to the appointments of a Board Lead, Head of Responsible Business and Environmental Sustainability Manager. With all offices now powered entirely by renewable energy, and a target to reach Net Zero by 2040, Bevan Brittan will publish its first Responsible Business Report later this year.