London media firm Olswang has been retained by the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) in relation to the tendering and negotiation of the sale of media rights to the 2010 World Cup, which will take place in South Africa.


City firm Simmons & Simmons has been retained by new clients Hoare Govett - the corporate finance branch of merchant bank ABN Amro - and Star Energy Group. Simmons advised on Star Energy's recent AIM listing.



Plymouth-based Bond Pearce has successfully won a tender for a three-year contract to provide employment and property services to Royal Mail across the south-west of England and south Wales.



Birmingham and London firm Wragge & Co has won a tender to advise Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council in relation to a £12 million leisure services public/private partnership to finance, redevelop and operate two existing leisure sites in the borough. The project will provide leisure facilities including swimming pools, health suites, athletics tracks and all-weather pitches. Wragges has also been appointed to Croydon Borough Council's major projects panel, alongside Newcastle firm Dickinson Dees and Brighton-based DMH.



North-west firm Brabners Chaffe Street has been appointed by the Recruitment & Employment Confederation to its panel of solicitors, to offer legal advice to its members across the country. The confederation represents the private recruitment industry in the UK, and its members include 6,000 agencies and more than 8,000 consultants. Brabners is already retained by another recruitment industry organisation, The Employment Agents Movement.



North-west property company MDA has appointed Manchester firm Glaisyers to act for its new residential property division, which is expected to build 100 new houses and flats this year and have a turnover of £10 million.



OCP West - a company recently set up to represent the Licensed Trade Training Consortium in the south-west - has appointed Devon-based Kitson Hutchings to make the first applications on behalf of its clients to South Devon Magistrates' Court.