Juli Lau

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Your advice has been clear, consistent and comprehensive, even when delivered under extreme time pressures. All the team members hold you in high regard and you quickly gained their complete confidence. You’ve consistently gone far beyond the requirement of meeting our requests and added significant value in the comprehensiveness of your responses. The thoroughness of your approach has ensured that further iterations were not required, which has allowed significant time and cost savings in the procurement cycle. Thanks once again for your hard work and for the incisiveness and intelligence which has made our procurements so much easier.

Procurement Lead, Thames Tideway Tunnel

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Juli is a public procurement and contracts specialist with particular expertise in public infrastructure projects, covering the fields of waste, energy and utilities.

She acts for both public authorities and utilities, and is experienced in advising on industry standard construction contracts, commercial contracts, and public procurement law.

Juli also holds a knowledge management role at Sharpe Pritchard, with a focus on know-how in public procurement law and Waste law. Her work has appeared in the Local Government Lawyer newsletter, the CICES Construction Law Review and on LexisNexis PSL. She is a member of the Procurement Lawyers Association and the LexisNexis Forum of Experts for Public Procurement.

Case highlights

  • Providing day-to-day advice and legal support to the Thames Tideway Tunnels Project, a nationally significant infrastructure project worth approximately £4.2bn. Juli worked on secondment as part of the Project’s in-house legal team. Her particular focus was the procurement of enabling works and services for the main tunnel construction, mostly utilising the NEC suite of contracts and drafting bespoke contracts where appropriate.
  • Advising a water utility company on its development of a major strategic water resource, working as part of a multi-disciplinary consultancy team, providing legal and procurement advice on commercial strategy and on the procurement of construction and professional services contracts.
  • Local authority energy schemes: advising local authorities on procurement and contracts relating to retrofit district heating, retrofit solar panels, and energy solutions advisory services.

    • Waste infrastructure and waste services:

  • Advising several local authorities on the procurement of their respective long-term waste management contracts, most recently advising a London local authority throughout the procurement of its waste collection and street cleansing contract valued in the region of £200 million;
  • Advising local authorities on residual waste treatment contracts, including PFI/PPP projects, and advising on post-award matters including changes in waste legislation and policy;
  • Advising on inter-authority and joint waste agreements between multiple local authorities, including advising on establishing such arrangements, advising on issues arising out of existing arrangements, and carrying out stakeholder engagement with councillors;
  • Providing complex legal advice to waste collection and waste disposal authorities on changes in waste legislation and guidance and their impact on statutory functions and long-term contracting arrangements.

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