The UK government may be short of funds but it has generated high value deals for Baker & McKenzie, Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) Bird & Bird and Simons & Simmons in the past few days as the recent initial public offering (IPO) wave also see CMS Cameron McKenna advise on an Alternative Investment Market (AIM) float.
As the government moves to instal smart meters in all homes and small businesses by 2020 in a programme worth £12bn, Simmons advised long standing client Telefónica UK on a £1.5bn contract awarded by the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) to act as smart meter provider for central and southern UK.
