DAC Beachcroft tops Whitehall legal advice rankings

DAC Beachcroft tops Whitehall legal advice rankings

Posted by Admin on 11 January 2018

Extracts from an article by The Brief Team at The Times.

"DAC Beachcroft leads a league table of legal advisers to Whitehall published yesterday after it picked up government instructions valued at nearly £140 million over last year.  

Propping up most of the leading firms on the list was a bonanza £480 million panel deal for advice awarded in May by NHS Resolution, formerly the NHS Litigation Authority." [...]

"Gus Tugendhat, of Tussell, the research business which produced the report said that last year's overall value of public sector procurement was £144 billion, which equated to 7 per cent of the UK's GDP.

He added that 211 legal services deals worth £482 million were due to expire across the public sector in the next two years, which provided a 'huge potential for further procurement activity'."

Read the full article on The Times' website.