MMU appoints four firms to its legal panel

MANCHESTER Metropolitan University has appointed four law firms to its legal panel.

Partners from Addleshaw Goddard, DWF, Eversheds and Mills and Reeve will now provide legal advice to the university.

This advice will cover a number of areas including: education, employment, commercial contracts, IT, intellectual property, procurement and construction law, as well as property and real estate work and academic agreements.

Richard Sykes, a partner and barrister at the Birmingham office of Mills and Reeve, who specialises in education and public law, will lead the firm’s advisory team.

He said: “We are proud to have been formally appointed to Manchester Metropolitan University’s panel.

“Our experience in delivering services to the higher education sector means we are fully aware of the funding pressures faced by universities and colleges.

“We are therefore committed to working with our clients to help them reduce their overall expenditure on legal services and to maximise the value for money they receive.

“We are very much looking forward to working with the university and its in-house legal team on future projects and continuing to build our relationship, which started in 2006.

“MMU positions itself as a university for world-class professionals and has shown itself to be a hugely popular place to study.”

Manchester Metropolitan University was awarded university status in 1992 and is part of the largest higher education campus in the UK and one of the most extensive education centres in Europe.

It is the UK’s third most popular university, receiving more than 48,000 applications each year.