- Neil Palmer
- Partner, London
- Field Fisher Waterhouse
- neil.palmer@ffw.com
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+44 (0)20 7861 4000
Neil Palmer advises on all aspects of public and private sector
corporate transactions including acquisitions and disposals, joint ventures, reorganisations and restructurings. He advises
in a variety of sectors, including the public
sector (in which he has advised on a large number of large
transition projects and major change programmes), the financial
services sector (where he has acted on the merger of a number of
financial institutions) and the telecomunications sector. Neil also focuses on
the energy, transport, healthcare,
not-for-profit sectors.
Neil enjoys the challenge of advising on the structuring of
novel multi-jurisdictional deals, and is familiar with working with
lawyers in different jurisdictions and acting as a single point of
contact for the client in managing external legal resource. He is
also a strong project manager, with the ability to oversee and
ensure the completion of large-scale projects over often
challenging timeframes.
Neil has 15 years’ experience of advising the in public sector.
During this time he has built up an in depth knowledge and
expertise of how this diverse and challenging sector operates. His
particular area of focus is advising public sector bodies on
transition projects and major change programmes, including the
establishment, restructuring and transformation of Government
agencies and businesses and advising on new governance and
constitutional structures. Neil also advises Government departments
and other public sector bodies on a wide variety of commercial
agreements including partnerships, joint ventures and other
collaborative arrangements, procurements, customer and supplier
agreements and confidentiality agreements.
Neil is a regular contributor to journals and publications. He
co-wrote the feature article for PLC magazine in December 2008 on
Making Sense of Government and is part of the firm’s team
contributing to the on-line public sector website run by the well
known legal publisher Practical Law Company.
Neil regularly participates in seminars and workshops. He spoke
at one of the firm’s seminars in February 2009 on managing the
downturn in the financial services sector. He also recently
conducted a workshop with NHS managers on key lessons learned in
managing structural change within the NHS and health sectors.