CCS is to set up a Panel of ‘full service’ providers of legal services to central Government and associated bodies in England, Wales, Scotland and N.I. to cover specialist legal advice and project support to cover the following Mandatory Services characterised by their impact on national financial stability, issues of national importance, or which involve the management of major risks to exchequer/taxpayer interests and the need for extreme urgency/confidentiality.
— Highly complex/innovative projects;
— Corporate Finance;
— Rescue, restructuring of strategically important entities;
— Financial Services, market and competition regulation;
— Investment and commercial banking;
— Insurance / re-insurance;
— Investment / Asset management;
— Equity and Debt capital markets;
— Asset finance;
— Highly complex transactions in regulated markets / environments;
— High value, complex mergers / acquisitions.