2015 Legal Awards

Legal Awards 2015 M&A awards 117 LEGAL awards ~ Best Infrastructure Boutique - UK Known as an award winning and leading specialist planning and environmental law firm, Zyda Law boasts an enviable track-record of success. We recently spoke with the firm’s founder, to find out what it is about Zyda Law that makes them stand out from the crowd. We are a Leading ‘Tier 1’ LEGAL500 practice, specialising in securing planning and development consent for major, and nationally significant, infrastructure projects. We help our clients achieve their goals through our unique combination of direct experience, legal expertise and innovative thinking. Our lawyers have extensive experience of major, and nationally significant, infrastructure projects in: Energy, Waste, Transport, Water & Marine, Office and Retail. With our help, some of the UK’s biggest developments have become a reality. Our continued success in gaining consent for major infrastructure projects has enabled in excess of £4 billion of development. Our clients often seek consent for ‘nationally significant infrastructure projects’ (NSIPs) which are nationally important developments such as power stations, railways and waste infrastructure which, due to their scale, require a ‘development consent order’. We help our clients to understand the philosophy of this regime and we approach the process with a stream- lined and bigger-picture strategy. We manage comprehensive community engagement programmes and ensure our clients’ applications comply with local and national policies. We take a deep interest in optimising our clients’ prospects of success by identifying and managing legal risk throughout the pre-application, application and examination stages of infrastructure development projects. We’ll listen to what you want – we’re commercially-minded and take responsibility and ownership of all instructions from the outset. We take a unique approach to infrastructure projects by providing a project management service which brings together all the elements – not just legal – needed to deliver the right result. We understand also the need for a collaborative, multi-disciplinary, team approach. Project teams have access to our cloud-based project management system, which acts as a central depository for all documents, actions and costs. This helps to deliver in-built savings, such as integrating consultation management in one system rather than incurring the cost of dedicated consultation management software. As a specialist boutique firm, unencumbered by the overheads of a large back office team or other depart- ments, we offer market leading competitive fixed fees for our infrastructure development work. Our fees are based on hourly charge rates which are the most competitive of all ‘Tier 1’ LEGAL500 law firms. Company: Zyda Law Web: http://www.zydalaw.com/ Address: 60 Cygnet Court; Stratford upon Avon Telephone: +44 1789 413949 Zyda Law