Government & Public Sector

While public authorities in every country and region of the world have to contend with different challenges and navigate different laws and legal frameworks, the issues they face are now global.

The coronavirus pandemic has transformed the landscape and added renewed focus on social issues such as ageing populations, health and social care funding and wealth inequality, as well as the resilience of local and regional economies and the inter-dependence of different countries and sectors. What is becoming clear is that national and local governments across the world are liable to become more interventionist in the wake of all this, and will be ever more critical in steering respective economies through the crisis and into the recovery.

Our multi-disciplinary government and public sector team brings together expertise in national, regional and local government, healthcare, education, charities and social enterprise. We combine vast experience across the many different strands of the public sector, working both on behalf of public bodies, quasi-public bodies and institutions, as well as with private sector suppliers and partners that rely on them.

We provide our clients with a full range of legal services such as:

• Grant funding
• Major infrastructure and regeneration projects
• Real estate support and development
• Planning
• Commercial and construction advice
• Day-to-day support on employment
• Data protection and freedom of information.

Our work also spans:

• Banking
• Commercial contracts
• Competition law (especially Subsidy Control and State aid)
• Construction
• Funding applications
• Health and safety
• Insolvency
• Insurance claims and counter fraud service
• Joint ventures
• Collaborations and partnerships
• Judicial reviews
• Litigation
• Mergers and acquisitions
• Mutuals
• PFI projects
• Pensions
• Public procurement
• Regulatory and compliance issues
• Social housing
• Strategic planning advice
• Vires and governance

All of this advice is specifically tailored to the needs of the public sector (and those interacting with it) using the specialist knowledge of our team. We advise public authorities across the world and the skills and experience we have is often readily transferable across jurisdictions. We work for central government authorities, regional and local authorities, R&D, education and health institutions, police authorities, charities, and all the third parties that work with the public sector.

Crown Commercial Service framework 

DWF is delighted to have been appointed to the Crown Commercial Service framework for 'Wider Public Sector – Legal Services' (RM6240). This means that if you are a public sector organisation and you qualify to use this CCS framework, you can now appoint us through the contract >

Crown Commercial Service's Legal Services Panel

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