Weightmans LLP

Local authorities across the UK frequently turn to Weightmans LLP for its ‘excellent approach to understanding the needs of a local government client’. The team handles a range of matters, which often include major town regeneration projects, property transactions, equal pay disputes, governance advice, public procurement assistance and framework advice. Liverpool-based Simon Goacher advises local authorities on governance, member conduct investigations and council constitutions and leads the team. Vincent King has expertise in procurement law, long-term contracts and the supply of services and funding agreements and is a further key contact based in the North West.