TfL appoints 19 firms to £120m legal services panel

The framework was divided into the following lots:

1. Employment Law
2. Major commercial matters
3. Rail industry matters
4. Routine commercial and real estate matters (contentious and non-contentious)
5. Housing matters
6. Complex property and commercial development matters
7. Major consents matters
8. Town and country planning and highways matters

The successful firms were:

• Addleshaw Goddard (lots 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
• Ashurst (2, 3, 6, 8)
• Bird & Bird (2)
• Browne Jacobson (5)
• Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner (5)
• Burges Salmon (2, 3, 6)
• Eversheds Sutherland (1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8)
• Freeths (4)
• Gowling WLG (UK) (2, 4, 6, 7, 8)
• Herbert Smith Freehills (2, 6, 8)
• K&L Gates (2)
• Mills and Reeve (2; with Sharpe Pritchard)
• Pinsent Masons (7, 8)
• Sharpe Pritchard (2; with Mills and Reeve)
• Stephenson Harwood (3)
• TLT (4)
• Town Legal (8)
• Trowers & Hamlins (5, 6)
• Womble Bond Dickinson (UK) (5, 7)

The framework is due to last for 48 months, with an option to extend for two years.