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20 January 2012

Eurostar succeeds in latest court hearing against Alstom

The High Court has on 20 January 2012 confirmed that Eurostar is not a utility subject to the EU derived public procurement law regime effective in the UK.

18 March 2011

Burges Salmon Appoints New Real Estate Partner

Burges Salmon has appointed real estate Partner Philip Beer from City of London firm Simmons & Simmons. Philip joined on 14 March to further strengthen the expanding 65 lawyer real estate practice, recently awarded Property Team of the Year at the British Legal Awards.

18 March 2011

Burges Salmon Appoints Four New Partners From Within

Top 50 UK law firm Burges Salmon has appointed four new partners from a range of practice areas across the firm. These appointments will bring the total number of partners to 69. They take effect from 1 May, 2011.

28 April 2010

Burges Salmon sponsors high profile rail industry event

The RAIL 100 Breakfast Club is a prominent business networking and social club for the rail industry’s top managers which meets four times a year in Simpson’s-in-the-Strand. 

08 October 2009

Rail Freight Awards 2009

This year over 100 people from the Rail Industry attended the 2009 Rail Freight Awards, an event which provides recognition for excellence and technical innovation within the Rail Industry. Co-sponsored by Burges Salmon, the successful event took place in Oxford with Richard Walford, rail partner presenting the awards alongside John Smith from First GBRF, the other main sponsor.

20 April 2009

Advising the Department for Transport on East Anglian rail service improvements

We recently advised the DfT on its first 'HLOS Capacity Metric Implementation'.

19 September 2008

Advice to Alstom Transport on tilting trains contract

We advised ALSTOM Transport who will supply additional new Pendolino high-speed tilting trains for use on the West Coast Main Line between London and Glasgow.

28 April 2008

Northern Irish Connection

We beat current Irish legal advisers to secure role advising on the procurement of a new fleet of trains for Translink