Caroline Ramsay

The contract, worth up to £7 million over its lifetime, follows the consortium’s appointment to the UK government’s trade law panel in February 2021 and includes legal advice and support to negotiate the UK’s accession to the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (the CPTPP) and two bilateral free trade agreements with Canada and Mexico. 

The consortium will lead a carefully-curated network of subcontractor law firms across eleven different jurisdictions, including:

• Minter Ellison – Australia
• Abrahams, Davidson & Co – Brunei Darussalam
• Carey Abogados – Chile
• Mori Hamada & Matsumoto – Japan
• Allen Gledhill – Malaysia, Singapore and Vietnam
• SAI Law & Economics – Mexico
• Minter Ellison Rudd Watts – New Zealand
• Rebza, Alcazar & De Las Casas – Peru 

Caroline Ramsay, partner at TLT and chair of the firm’s international trade group, said: “It is an absolute honour to have been selected to deliver this significant and complex project for the Department for International Trade. We have a proven track record of curating specialist consortia of “best in class” law firms and lawyers to support the government, and our consortium’s collective expertise, combined with TLT’s FutureLaw solutions, means we are able to provide a ‘global-boutique’ trade law service to meet the Department’s needs.

“The dedication and commitment of the bid team to win such an illustrious instruction was entirely true to TLT’s values, and we are looking forward to working with our network of international partners to leverage our individual national excellence and collective international reach.”