The specialist GFA team at DWF stands out because combined with our market leading Subsidy Control expertise, our lawyers proactively manage the Grant Funding Agreement process on your behalf with the minimum of fuss – we get the deal done, within your timescales, whilst protecting public funding.

Why should you instruct DWF to draft and negotiate your Grant Funding Agreements?

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You should instruct DWF because our large, specialist team has the focus, experience and expertise to deliver your objectives quickly and efficiently.

Our lawyers have experience of advising on over £1bn of awards of public funding in the last decade. This includes drafting and negotiating GFAs for Government Departments, Local Government, Universities and many other organisations involved in administering public funds, while similarly advising many beneficiaries on receipt of funds, including manufacturers, developers and charities, and multi-nationals and SMEs.

Our exceptional experience means we can offer a tailored service which focusses on the needs of the clients in each case. This includes considering relevant powers, Subsidy Control issues, public procurement requirements and managing potential risks.

Fundamentally, DWF is passionate about supporting the Public Sector and is proud to be the first choice for many public authorities when it comes to drafting and negotiating Grant Funding programmes and individual agreements. Such experience similarly allows us to be a firm of choice assisting beneficiaries.

We recognise that we are only in that position because of the quality of our work and behaving in a manner which makes people want to work with us.

DWF has the UK’s leading Public Sector law team and can assist with all elements of the Grant Funding process. This includes designing structures to best demonstrate compliance, as well as Subsidy Control and creating contracts that protect public money.

If you need specialist advice on any part of the public funding process, then please get in touch.

Recent examples of Grant Funding Agreements DWF’s specialist GFA team have worked upon include:

advising one of the largest Government Departments on updating its suite of grant funding agreements;
negotiating a major grant funding award with a Government Department no behalf of a private beneficiary;
advising a Combined Authority on the creation of an individual subsidy scheme for the purposes of delivering a grant funding programme and referring the same to the Competition & Markets Authority for a decision prior to adoption of the scheme;
advising on the creation of a financial instrument for a Combined Authority and subsequently updating the fund as a result of its success;
advising two Combined Authorities on the delivery of their Brownfield Housing Fund programmes, including managing Subsidy Control compliance; and
flow down agreements for Central Government funding relating to environmental grants which had to be simultaneously negotiated with multiple local government bodies.