Freshfields, Linklaters and eight other firms win spots on MoD projects panel
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Linklaters are among firms winning places on the Ministry of Defence's (MoD's) 10-strong major projects panel.
December 22, 2014 at 05:08 AM
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Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Linklaters are among the firms to have won places on the Ministry of Defence's (MoD) 10-strong major projects panel.
Addleshaw Goddard, Burges Salmon, Freshfields, Herbert Smith Freehills and Linklaters have been added to the department's expanded roster, while five firms – Dentons, Mills & Reeve, Shepherd & Wedderburn, Simmons & Simmons and Wragge Lawrence Graham & Co – retained their places.
Pinsent Masons, which was on the last panel, does not appear in the latest line-up, nor does previous panel member Fieldfisher, which did not pitch for a place.
Earlier this year the MoD outlined its intentions to increase the number of panel firms from seven to 10 firms. It received 64 expressions of interest before its 1 August deadline, and went on to review 27 contenders.
The MoD said that the ten firms' bids displayed a "comprehensive understanding of the public sector", and expertise in handling a "range of complex contracting structures".
The department said the firms showed an "ability to work efficiently with a broad range of project teams and with other advisers and [industries]"; that they could "add commercial value to any particular project" and provide a "coherent strategy for knowledge transfer" to its in-house legal team and commercial staff.
Freshfields, legacy Herbert Smith, Simmons and Burges Salmon had previously missed out on positions in the 2006 review, when the MoD's roster was trimmed down from 12 firms to eight.
The previous roster – Simmons & Simmons, Fieldfisher, legacy Wragge & Co, Pinsent Masons, legacy Denton Wilde Sapte, Mills & Reeve and Shepherd and Wedderburn – was appointed for a four-year term in 2010.
Panel in full:
Addleshaw Goddard
Burges Salmon
Dentons
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Herbert Smith Freehills
Linklaters
Mills & Reeve
Shepherd & Wedderburn
Simmons & Simmons
Wragge Lawrence Graham & Co
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