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Juli Lau

Juli Lau

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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 has acted for public authorities on a number of PPP/PFI projects and has extensive experience advising on public procurement law for local government, central government and utilities.

Juli regularly leads commercial legal support to public authorities on high-value waste projects. She is also well-versed with industry-standard construction contracts.

She gives regular talks on her areas of expertise, and her written work has appeared in the Local Government Lawyer newsletter, the CICES Construction Law Review and on LexisNexis PSL.

Skills and strengths:

As an accredited Legal Project Manager, Juli offers clients strategic and project management support on complex procurements and takes a collaborative approach when leading other legal advisers and professional consultants within project teams.

Juli is a member of the Procurement Lawyers Association and the LexisNexis Forum of Experts for Public Procurement.

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

  • Central Government
  • Corporate Clients
  • Education Providers
  • Emergency Services
  • Energy Sector
  • Health
  • Housing Sector
  • Leisure
  • Local Government
  • Start up
  • Transport Sector
  • Waste Sector
  • Water Sector
  • Commercial
  • Commercial Contracts
  • Construction
  • Construction contracts
  • Infrastructure
  • Outsourcing and Shared Services
  • Procurement
  • Advising several local authorities on competitive dialogue procurements for long-term waste management contracts, leading legal negotiations with bidders, including acting for a London local authority throughout the procurement of its waste services contract valued in the region of £200 million.
  • Advising local authorities on high-value residual waste treatment (including Energy from Waste) PPP/PFI contracts, most recently advising on contract changes, changes in waste legislation and policy, and expiry/handback matters.
  • Leading the provision of day-to-day legal support to the Governance, Assurance and Audit team of the New Hospitals Programme, a significant programme in the government’s major projects portfolio.
  • Secondment to the in-house legal team of the Thames Tideway Tunnels Project, a nationally significant infrastructure project worth approximately £4.2bn.
  • 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.
  • Advising on inter-authority and joint waste agreements between multiple local authorities.

Commercial Payments Bill: Implications for Public Authorities and Contractors

16 June 2026

Juli Lau, Helen Arthur and Shyann Sheehy look into the new Commercial Payments Bill and what it means for both public authorities and larger contractors. As referred to in our article on the implications of the King’s Speech 2026 for the construction sector, the government has announced new legislation which intends to improve commercial payment... Read more

King’s Speech 2026: Construction Implications of the Remediation Bill and The Small Business Protections (Late Payments) Bill

22 May 2026

The King’s Speech 2026, read together with the accompanying background briefing notes, outlines the government’s proposed legislative programme for the new parliamentary session and includes a number of measures of particular significance to the construction sector. Experts Rachel Murray-Smith, Helen Arthur, and Juli Lau consider the Remediation Bill and The Small Business Protections (Late Payments)... Read more

First Procurement Act 2023 Judgment: What it Means for Authorities and Suppliers

11 May 2026

The first court judgment under section 102 of the Procurement Act 2023 offers an early indication of how judges may approach automatic suspension applications, with practical implications for both contracting authorities and suppliers navigating procurement challenges and standstill strategy.  By Juli Lau and Melodi Mangan  What happened in the first Procurement Act 2023 case  Parkingeye Limited v Velindre University... Read more

Reserve below-threshold contracts for UK or local suppliers under the 2026 Order

4 March 2026

Juli Lau and Shyann Sheehy look into the impact of the Local Government (Exclusion of Non-commercial Considerations) (England) Order 2026, and particularly how local authorities can now reserve below-threshold contracts for UK or local suppliers.  On 4th February 2026, the Local Government (Exclusion of Non-commercial Considerations) (England) Order 2026 (the “Order”) came into force, with... Read more
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