# Specialist Legal Advice to support nuclear decommissioning under the Nuclear Liabilities Funding Agreements

> Contract award record from UK public-sector procurement sources.

## Key facts

- Public buyer: [Business Energy and Industrial Strategy](/buyers/business-energy-and-industrial-strategy/contract-awards)
- Contract winner: [Simmons & Simmons](/contract-winners/simmons-simmons/public-sector-contract-awards)
- Award value: £3,140,000
- Tender value: £3,140,000
- Award date: 20 July 2018
- Published: 15 September 2020
- Contract start: 17 September 2018
- Contract end: 18 September 2020
- Stage: awarded
- Procurement category: services
- Notice ID: fdc37dee-5469-4a53-8968-a26bf56615a8-381366
- OCID: ocds-b5fd17-2126c3fb-cd31-433c-8272-f5541427c207

## Description

Procurement of specialist commercial legal advice, including advice on Scottish Trust, company law and employment law, to inform work related to the EDF nuclear fleet and its future decommissioning, as governed by various agreements\. Advice will also be required across all of these areas on preliminary identification of any State Aid or public law issues arising\. Additional information: This was awarded from the prevision of a Crown Commercial Service Framework RM3787 - Finance & Complex Legal Services - Lot Number 1

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## Source

[View the original notice on Contracts Finder](https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/fdc37dee-5469-4a53-8968-a26bf56615a8-381366)