Browne Jacobson LLP

Business services.

Craig is a Partner in Browne Jacobson’s Government and Infrastructure Team and takes a lead on major projects, procurements and high-value local and central government work. Craig has over fifteen years’ experience advising public and private sector bodies in relation to PFI, PPP and other long term commercial arrangements.

Craig advises government bodies, and suppliers government clients, on projects, complex procurements and high-value contracts. He has particular experience of the waste, energy, leisure, education and social infrastructure projects. He was also recently named as “public sector person of the year” for delivering innovative partnering arrangements with our local authority clients.

Craig works with major government clients including HM Treasury, and Department of Health and Social Care and Natural England on some of their most high-profile projects. He also has experience of PFI arrangements, including some of the highest-value PFI projects to sign in the UK to date. Using this experience, he continues to advise on PFI variations and refinancing.

He also leads on Browne Jacobson’s market-leading partnering arrangements with local authorities, including the London Boroughs of Croydon and Enfield. He is known for providing significant added and social value, ensuring that clients get the best commercial deal from their partnerships with the private sector and working with local authorities to deliver transformational change through their contracts and procurements.

He also has particular experience in the social infrastructure, waste, energy, defence and leisure sectors and of delivering projects under competitive dialogue. For example, advising:  the Ministry of Defence on its £700 million combined aerial target systems (CATS) project (named best UK PPP to sign at the national PPP awards); the Cabinet Office on the outsourcing of the UK’s defence resilience function, and; a number of authorities on some of the largest waste PFIs to date in the UK.

Trained Fox Williams; qualified 1999. Fox Williams, trainee 1997-99. Eversheds, solicitor 1999-2004, associate 2004-2009. Browne Jacobson partner 2010-present.

Collegiate High School, Blackpool; Durham University; College of Law, York. LLB 1996; Legal practice course 1997.

Hiking, cookery, Blackpool FC.