Browne Jacobson and CBI Partner to Revive PFI-style Models for Infrastructure Investment

Browne Jacobson partnered with the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) to assist Whitehall policymakers and key government departments in developing public‑private partnership (PPP) frameworks for national infrastructure renewal. The partnership will produce research and recommendations advising how to leverage private sector investment for building schools, hospitals, prisons and transport projects. It will explore which PPP models are most effective, drawing lessons from earlier programmes such as PFI and PF2 that supported more than 700 public infrastructure projects between the late 1990s and 2018. The work responds to government ambitions to deliver 1.5 million new homes and 150 nationally significant infrastructure projects within this Parliament and to a planned allocation of £725 billion over the next decade, while recognising limited fiscal headroom and the need to crowd in private finance. The project will consider reforms to address perceived drawbacks of earlier schemes by promoting greater flexibility, transparency and improved value of risk transfer. Browne Jacobson will work with the CBI’s Infrastructure Working Group, comprising more than 60 businesses with deep industry knowledge of infrastructure financing and delivery, and will engage key government bodies including the Treasury, the National Infrastructure and Service Transformation Authority, the Office for Investment and the National Wealth Fund. The initiative will be showcased at the CBI Annual Conference on 24 November during a panel on attracting global capital for innovation and infrastructure, and will culminate in a joint report setting out credible frameworks and recommending which PPP models the government could deploy to partner effectively with the private sector. Browne Jacobson represented the partnership with the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) with a team composed by: Craig Elder, Partner, Public Procurement.

Browne Jacobson and CBI Partner to Revive PFI-style Models for Infrastructure Investment

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