"Well respected for their advice to over 100 authorities across the UK. Standards, conduct and constitutional issues are key strengths, and the firm also advises on projects (notably waste PFI), procurement, housing, regeneration, employment and commercial ventures." Legal 500 2007

Bevan Brittan is firmly established as a fast expanding, national law firm offering legal services to clients across both the public and private sector. We are nationally renowned for our expertise in advising the public sector. We work with local authorities, the health service , audit and regulation bodies, central government and other agencies.

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Across the firm we concentrate on a range of core practice areas in five distinct business sectors – Public Sector, the Built Environment, Insurance & Recovery, Technology & Manufacturing and Professional Services.

The firm operates in cross-departmental teams across these sectors to harness the full range of skills and experience needed to meet clients’ requirements. Bevan Brittan’s approach is to find ways to solve problems and deliver practical solutions to the business and legal issues faced by its clients. We aim to be responsive to each client's own unique needs, flexible in the way we deliver our service and more than happy to challenge conventional thinking. This means a drive to achieve a detailed understanding of each client’s requirements and a genuine commitment to deliver real value. It is the combination of deep specialisms and breadth of expertise, together with a clear commercial focus, that enables Bevan Brittan to generate solutions that really work.

Bevan Brittan is a firm with strong local government experience and relationships. Many of our team have worked in-house for local authorities, and can bring many years’ experience of advising and understanding the particular issues which are of fundamental importance to democratically elected organisations.

Specific services we can offer include:
Corporate Governance/Probity
Procurement/Effective Service Delivery
Employment
Environment/Licensing/Health and Safety
Infrastructure
Construction
Regeneration
Planning/Compulsory Purchase Orders
Property
PFI/PPP
Joint Working With Health
Major Investigations and Inquiries
Judicial Review and Major Litigation
Local Authority Liability Claims
e-government
Consultancy, Training and Partnerships

We can also provide tailored training and consultancy services for elected members and officers and run seminar programmes in Bristol, Birmingham and London.

We would be delighted to talk to you further about how we can help you.

Bethan Evans
bethan.evans@bevanbrittan.com

0870 194 8993