About
Provided by Stephenson Harwood LLP
Our rail team combines first-class legal skills, unbeatable commitment to our clients, outstanding market knowledge and genuine commercial understanding. Being at the table with the industry means we have unique insights from all perspectives. This benefits our clients, who comprise some of the most significant stakeholders in the industry.
Our team acts for private sector operators and owning groups, public bodies, financiers, lessors, industry bodies, infrastructure owners, manufacturers and maintainers and includes lawyers who have worked in or been seconded to the industry (including to General Counsel roles in both of High Speed 1 and High Speed 2).
We can help you with:
- franchise agreements and concessions (including direct awards)
- mobilisations and demobilisations
- competition issues
- infrastructure procurement, ownership, operation and maintenance
- access agreements and options
- stations, depots and adjacent property
- rolling stock procurement, operation, leasing and maintenance
- signalling arrangements
- employment, unions and pensions
- joint ventures
- planning and environmental issues
- procurement and regulation
- real estate and construction
- intellectual property rights and protection
- dispute resolution
