About
Provided by Stone King LLP
Spread across our offices nationwide, (Bath, Birmingham, Cambridge, Leeds, London and Manchester) our team of specialist lawyers offer support with the strength that comes from being part of a firm rated in the Top 200 by The Lawyer, consistently named a Best Law Firm by the Times and top-ranked by Chambers and Legal 500.
Our practice includes:
- Supporting colleges in both positive and challenging situations
- Helping with key stakeholder communications and conducting negotiations, including the ESFA at local and national levels, the OfS, Ofqual and Awarding Bodies
- Negotiating funding arrangements, for example with DfE, local enterprise partnerships and banks
- Student related issues
- Shared and managed services
- Collaboration/joint venture arrangements, social enterprise initiatives and place-based solutions
- Mergers
- Commercial contracts - e.g. with suppliers and employers
- Education contracts - e.g. apprenticeships and subcontracted provision
- Procurement
- State Aid
- Employment law
- HR advice
- Immigration advice
- Equality and diversity advice
- Estates issues - land sales, purchases, taking and granting leases, estate management
- Construction and facilities management
- Information law (data protection and freedom of information)
- Project management
- Innovative cost effective packaged services, including: - governance support - information law - employment law and HR retainer - legal retainer
