Love me tenders

The last month has seen a host of law firms win new instructions:Wragge & Co is advising Skipton Building Society's new subsidiary, Amber Homeloans, on mortgage repossessions.Mills & Reeve has been appointed principal legal adviser to St George's Hospital Medical School in London.Cobbetts, Eversheds and Irwin Mitchell have been appointed to Lancashire County Council's panel for public-private partnerships (PPPs).

Cobbetts has also been retained by Nationwide to act in its funding of the Lancashire fire stations private finance initiative as well as four other fire service projects and the Eric Wright Group on its Cheshire schools private finance initiative bid.

CMS Cameron McKenna is part of a consortium that won the tender to conduct a study on future options for the management and funding of the Warsaw Underground, including a PPP.Hammond Suddards Edge, together with the Singapore Sports Council, the Football Association of Singapore and the Law Society of Singapore, is working on Sports Singapore, a $500 million commitment to make Singapore one of the top ten sporting nations in Asia.

Hammonds' sports team has also won instructions from Sportinc, Singapore's newest sports marketing and consultancy firm, and been appointed honorary adviser to the World Tenpin Bowling Association to review its worldwide governance.Back in Europe, Hammonds has won Ondeo, a division of giant French water utility company Suez Group, as a client.

It followed an introduction by the New York and Frankfurt mergers and acquisitions broker EuroConsult.Foot Anstey Sargent has been reappointed by the Department of Trade and Industry to undertake company director disqualification work in the south-west.Addleshaw Booth & Co has been added to British Airways' panel of preferred legal advisers, with a focus on intellectual property, employment, property, IT, pensions, corporate and commercial work.Ward Hadaway has been appointed legal adviser to North Tyneside Primary Care Trust.Harbottle & Lewis, which advises 'Popstars' band Hear'Say, has been appointed to advise the winners of the contest's Irish version.