What makes a leading UK law firm? - Burges Salmon

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Our work‘Work on deals of allsizes and complexity ispraised as ‘impeccable’by a client base thatappreciates the firm’sblend of technicalexcellence andcommercial nous.’Legal 500•Acting for Discovery CommunicationsEurope in their successful defence ofHigh Court proceedings for trademarkinfringement and passing off brought byA&E Television Networks, ranked as oneof The Lawyer’s top cases of 2012•Assisting Harrods and Virgin on brandingissues around the globe, including trademark infringements and copyrighting,counterfeiting and advertising issues•Advising the Greater London Authorityand the London Development Agencyon the process to select a developer totransform the 34 acre Royal Albert Dock inLondon, in a £1bn deal that is the first majorproject to see a Chinese developer investingin London•Advising the Nuclear DecommissioningAuthority on two of its major projects:its appointment of Babcock DounreayPartnership Limited as the parent bodyorganisation for its former research anddevelopment site at Dounreay in Caithness,and its agreement to transfer an NDAownedsite at Capenhurst, to URENCO•Representing The Co-operative Groupin a successful appeal against the OFT –overturning a decision to impose recordfines totalling £225 million on ten retailersand two manufacturers which the OFTalleged had engaged in anti-competitiveconduct relating to the pricing of tobaccoproducts. The case was the joint winner ofthe Competition/Regulatory Team of theYear category at the 2012 Lawyer Awards8 Burges Salmon
•Advising Babcock International Groupplc on a major public sector restructuringproject that will see them deliveringeducation services to more than 360schools in partnership with Devon CountyCouncil•Advising MeyGen on the pioneering400MW Round One marine scheme in theInner Sound, Pentland Firth, set to be theworld’s largest tidal energy project•Competition Commission – advisingon the corporate aspects of the sale ofStansted Airport for £1.5bn in cash, havingpreviously advised on the sale of bothEdinburgh and Gatwick airports•Advising Leeds United FC on a test caserelating to match day policing charges onpublic highways and winning both the caseand subsequent appeal by West YorkshirePolice at the High Court and Court of Appeal•Successfully representing The FootballLeague in disciplinary proceedingsbrought against Watford AFC which was thefirst major case concerned with financial fairplay in football•Providing on-going advice to SaharaForce India F1 Team on a claim broughtagainst it by McLaren•Advising iCON Infrastructure PartnersII, L.P and EEA Holdings Ltd on a majorinvestment in the Beckton Combined Heatand Power plant in East London•Advising Business Growth Fund on itsinvestment of £3.92 million of growth capitalin Magmatic Ltd, which trades under the highprofile ‘Trunki’ travel product brand name•Advising two Saudi Equestrian showjumpers in the run-up to the London2012 Olympic Games after their horsestested positive for a controlled medicationsubstance. Their appeal at the Court ofArbitration for Sport in June 2012 wassuccessful•Advising the London Fire andEmergency Planning Authority on theappointment of Babcock, on an interimbasis, to ensure the continuity of the supplyand maintenance of their 4000 strong fleetof fire engines during the Queen’s Jubilee,Olympic and Paralympic year followingthe occurrence of a financial crisis at theircontracted supplier•Advising longstanding client The CrownEstate on the acquisition of Princes House(incorporating BAFTA HQ) in St James’,London for £87 million•Advising SSE Renewables and RWENpower Renewables on the planningpermission for the £1.8bn Galloper OffshoreWind Farm off the Suffolk coast, settingthe industry precedent for such offshoreconsents under the new Planning Act 2008regime for major electricity projects•Advising International Power andMorgan Stanley on all aspects of the400MW Inner Sound Tidal Stream projectoff John O’Groats, the largest project of itskind in the world•Advising Isle of Anglesey CountyCouncil on Horizon/Hitachi’s multi-£bnproposals for two new nuclear powerstations and a major National Grid overheadgrid connection, being one of the largestinward investments ever proposed in Waleswith potential to transform the regionaleconomy•Advising Bristol City Council and NorthSomerset Council on the South BristolLink, a major highways scheme, includinga complex compulsory purchase order•Advising QinetiQ Pension Scheme ona case which resolved the central issue asto the rights of the scheme to switch therevaluation indices and materially improvethe security of scheme members•Advising Milk Link on its merger withArla Foods, creating one of the first evermergers between a UK and a foreignco-operative•Advising Spear Group, the global labelsbusiness on its acquisition by Viennaheadquartered Constantia Flexibles Group,working alongside Thompson Hine LLP inthe USA leading UK law firm 9
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