UK infrastructure projects—relevant sources, government bodies and guidance

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Practice notes

UK infrastructure projects—relevant sources, government bodies and guidance

Copyright © 2025 LexisNexis

Produced in partnership with Mathias Cheung of Atkin Chambers

Practice notes
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Note on public procurement Post-brexit

The Implementation Period under the EU-UK Withdrawal Agreement came to an end on 31 December 2020 at 11:00 pm GMT (IP Completion Day), and all the changes introduced under the Public Procurement (Amendment etc) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020, SI 2020/13/19 to the existing EU-derived public procurement legislation have now come into force (with the exception of the amendments set out in Regulations 7, 9, 11 and 16). This Practice Note has been updated to take into account these post-Brexit changes.

In addition, the UK government has published high-level guidance on public procurement post-Brexit, which has been updated after IP Completion Day: Public procurement policy and Public-sector procurement.

For further information, see Practice Note: Brexit—the implications for public procurement [Archived].

Scope of this Practice Note

This Practice Note considers institutions and government departments responsible for the delivery of infrastructure projects in the UK (in particular, public private partnerships (PPP or P3), private finance initiative (PFI) and Private Finance 2 (PF2),

Mathias Cheung
Mathias Cheung

Atkin Chambers

Mathias Cheung is a barrister at Atkin Chambers. He specialises in commercial and construction dispute resolution, including litigation, adjudication and international arbitration. Mathias has acted in a complex TCC dispute regarding the redevelopment of the Rolls Building, and has appeared successfully as junior counsel in Vinci Construction UK Ltd v Beumer Group UK Ltd [2018] EWHC 1874 (TCC). He also appears regularly as sole counsel in the TCC, most recently in DSVG Facades Ltd v Conneely Facades Ltd and McDonald & Anor v D&F Contracts Ltd [2018] EWHC 1600 (TCC).

Mathias has extensive experience advising on disputes and adjudications concerning PFI hospital and school projects, which typically involve complex contractual issues in relation to service failures, payment deductions, insolvency and termination.

As a native of Hong Kong, Mathias is fluent in both Cantonese and Mandarin. He has recently acted as junior counsel in a high-value arbitration in Hong Kong involving delay and defects claims arising from a Macanese project, and he is assisting in a number of matters relating to major railway projects in Hong Kong.

Mathias is the winner of the SCL Hudson Prize 2015 for his essay entitled 'Shylock's Construction Law: the Brave New Life of Liquidated Damages?', and has published widely in the Construction Law Journal, International Construction Law Review and the Construction Law magazine. He is also the author of the yearly Construction Law Review published by Informa.

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