IPA guidance 2025: Managing PFI distress and preparing for expiry
3 July 2025
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1 July 2025
24 June 2025
Bridget Newman and Nimoy Kher bring international private sector expertise in infrastructure and energy law to support evolving client needs. Sharpe Pritchard has announced the appointment of two senior legal specialists, marking a significant investment in its capability to advise on innovative financing structures for major public sector initiatives. Bridget Newman joins the firm from…
Read more24 June 2025
On the 19th June 2025, the Data Use and Access Bill (“DUA Bill”) received Royal Assent to become the Data Use and Access Act 2025 (“DUA Act”). The DUA Act does not replace existing data protection legislation but does amend the UK GDPR, whilst introducing broader data governance regulation beyond governance of personal data. The…
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Public authorities are likely no stranger to the rules governing the modification of instruments awarded by public authorities in the procurement context[1], but the legal framework surrounding amendments made to awarded subsidies may feel less familiar. This is no surprise – in fact, at the time of writing, only 10 of the 1554 standalone subsidies…
Read more20 June 2025
Public-private partnerships (PPPs) have long played a central, if controversial, role in UK infrastructure delivery. For over twenty years, models like the Private Finance Initiative (PFI) and its successor, PF2, underpinned investments across schools, hospitals, justice buildings and transport networks. Yet by the end of the 2010s, these models were widely discredited. Concerns over inflexibility,…
Read more18 June 2025
The UK’s new heat network zoning framework (the outlines for which were drawn by the Energy Act 2023) is set to redefine how low‑carbon heating is delivered by creating geographic zones, where district heat networks are the mandated, optimal solution. It’s an enticing proposition: guaranteed customer bases in each zone, ripe for financing and scaling….
Read more16 June 2025
Is it Time for Public Sector Major Infrastructure Debt Guarantor? Ofwat, Government and Industry have identified that the UK’s water sector urgently needs substantial investment to modernise ageing infrastructure, tackle critical environmental issues, and comply with increasingly stringent regulations. The capital requirement could be as much as £12 billion per year. Recent high-profile incidents of…
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