Sam Karim KC (Sheikh M S Karim) | Manchester, Leeds & Birmingham

• Commercial disputes arising from performance of government contracts such as benchmarking;
• Market testing and performance issues;
• Concessions and part B contracts;
• Health service procurement, and outside the EU;
• Project finance and PFI/PPP matters;
• Regeneration schemes;
• Procurement by EU institutions;
• State aid and procurement; and
• Utilities procurement.

Recent cases also include:

• Acted for the Claimants alleging that a private body was subject to the PCR as a contracting authority and/or alternatively that an implied/express contract existed and/or that the decision was amenable to judicial review
• Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust & Anor v Lancashire County Council [2018] EWHC 200 (TCC) relating to an application to lift an automatic stay under Regulation 96 of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015. This was also the first High Court decision post Nuclear Decommissioning Authority vEnergySolutions EU Ltd (now called ATK Energy EU Ltd) [2017] UKSC 34
• Acted for the Defendants concerning alleged breaches of obligations of equal treatment and transparency in the application in an allegedly abnormally low tender. This case was settled on confidential terms
• Acted for a Claimant in an alleged purported abnormally low tender and lifting of the statutory suspension
• Acted for the Defendant in proceedings concerning a claim for damages in respect of alleged breaches of EU law in the rejection of a tender as non-compliant
• Acted for the Claimant in relation to a challenge procurement of children’s services in the North West
• Acted for the Defendant in relation to a lifted suspension and third-party disclosure

Sam is also the author of commercial judicial review & procurement law in the 3^rd Edition of Patterson & Karim on Judicial Review: Law & Practice.