MOBILIST: Legal Services & Specialist Advise

Description

MOBILIST: Legal & Specialist Advise provides specialist legal and commercial advisory services to support the FCDO’s MOBILIST programme, which undertakes complex cross‑border capital‑markets transactions and due‑diligence activities across multiple jurisdictions. The supplier delivers legal opinions, due‑diligence reviews, regulatory compliance advice, SPV governance support, and negotiation assistance for brokerage, custody and investment agreements. These services ensure that MOBILIST transactions are structured lawfully, protect FCDO’s financial and legal interests, and comply with UK procurement and regulatory requirements. The contract enables continuity of expert support for active and emerging investment workstreams and underpins the safe delivery of the programme’s investment and market‑building objectives. Lot 1: The procurement concerns the provision of specialist legal and commercial advisory services to support the FCDO’s MOBILIST programme. The original contract was awarded as a Direct Award under the CCS Legal Services Panel Framework RM6179, Lot 2 (Finance and Complex Legal Services), following receipt of a single bid in accordance with the framework rules. The contract is delivered on a time‑and‑materials basis using approved maximum chargeable rates. The nature of the services includes specialist legal advice, comprising legal due‑diligence reviews, legal opinions on transaction structures and enforceability, regulatory and compliance advice, governance support for special‑purpose vehicles, and negotiation of investment, brokerage, custody, and other commercial agreements in multiple jurisdictions. Additional information: This amendment is for ongoing finalisation of commissioned work only