2008 - 2009 - Pinsent Masons Water Yearbook 2012 - 2013

PINSENT MASONS WATER SECTOR GROUP
• advising a bidder on its bid for Project Aquatrine, the UK Ministry of Defence project to
outsource its water and wastewater functions under the Private Finance Initiative;
• advising on a major industrial water outsourcing project in the UK;
• advising a UK Utility Group, part of the preferred bidder consortium, on the Engineering
Procurement Construction contract issues (Package 1), in connection with the design, build
and operation of a water treatment plant in Beijing. Beijing No. 10 is the fourth formal BOT
project in China;
• advising a member of a bidding consortium in connection with the Disi-Amman water
conveyor BOT project in Jordan;
• advising part of a consortium bidding for the Dublin Bay Ringsend Treatment Works
wastewater project in Dublin;
• acting for the Government of Sri Lanka on the Greater Negombo Water PSP project;
• advising the South African Department of Water Affairs and Forestry on the form of model
contracts to regulate water services for the benefit of South African municipalities;
• acting for the preferred bidder in connection with the Levenmouth Wastewater Treatment
project in Scotland. This is a bond financed project procured under the UK Government’s
Private Finance Initiative;
• advising administrators to a mineral water company on the transfer of abstraction licenses;
• advising OFWAT on an appeal to the Competition Appeal Tribunal by Aqua Resources
Limited;
• advising PAI Partners on the UK aspects of their EUR1.7billion disposal of water company
SAUR to a consortium led by Caisse des Depots.
For further details of Pinsent Masons’ capabilities and experience in the water, wastewater,
desalination and industrial water re-use sectors, and of the firm's capabilities and experience in
the regulatory field, contact Mark Lane, Head of the Water Sector Group, at:
Pinsent Masons
30 Aylesbury Street
London
EC1R 0ER
Tel: +44 (0)20 7490 4000
DDI: +44 (0)20 7490 6214
Mobile: +44 (0)7860 872533
Fax: +44 (0)20 7490 2545
Email: mark.lane@pinsentmasons.com
Web: www.pinsentmasons.com
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