Antitrust and competition
Public procurement
Our market-leading practice has significant experience advising procuring entities and bidders on all aspects of procurement law, bid challenges, and conducting self-cleaning measures.
Our market-leading practice has significant experience advising procuring entities and bidders on all aspects of procurement law, bid challenges, and conducting self-cleaning measures.
Working closely with our antitrust, subsidy control and, if needed, corporate crime teams, our unrivalled cross-border and multi-practice capabilities give us an edge that sees us working on the world’s most high-profile contentious and non-contentious matters. We are at the forefront of this field and are consistently among the top-ranked firms.
Chambers notes the team “offers a cross-border practice with in-depth knowledge of international procurement reforms and EU law. The team's lawyers are experts in many sectors including transport, health, nuclear, defence and infrastructure. The firm boasts a formidable challenges and disputes offering allied to one of the best competition law practices in the country.”
Our advice
- Access to global public markets including multi-jurisdictional regulatory reviews on procurement regulation;
- Assisting clients in participating in procurement procedures;
- Meeting tender requirements, including most recently for example in connection with the EU Foreign Subsidies Regulation;
- Bid challenges following alleged breaches of public procurement law;
- Advising on complex overseas procurement structures;
- Handling complex carve-outs and corporate restructuring measures in a procurement law compliant manner,
- Establishing global procurement compliance programmes and conducting self-cleaning measures following non-compliances.
Our expertise
- purchasers and suppliers on European, member state and international procurement law;
- bidders on award procedures for public works, supplies and services contracts;
- contracting authorities on public tenders and detailed procurement structures;
- suppliers on public procurement regimes around the globe; and
- contracting authorities and bidders in court proceedings relating to public tenders and in other contentious proceedings concerning alleged breaches of public procurement law.
See below for recent client successes.
Our lawyers are well-recognised as thought leaders in the field of public procurement. We frequently contribute to publications including the Public Procurement Law Review, Chambers Guides on Public Procurement and King’s College London University’s postgraduate public procurement programme and participate on the procurement task forces of the International Chamber of Commerce and the Confederation of British Industry.
Kate Gough has also been invited by the UK Department for International Trade to join the Expert Trade Advisory Group on government contracting, demonstrating our expertise both in the UK and internationally.
