A large number of advisers were involved in the restructuring of the project, the major parties involved are listed below.
Advisers to the Department: |
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J Henry Schroder & Company Ltd (now Schroder Salomon Smith Barney) | Financial adviser | |
CMS Cameron McKenna | Legal adviser (commercial arrangements) | |
Linklaters & Paines | Legal adviser (European Commission) | |
Mott Parsons Gibb | Technical adviser and project representative | |
Booze-Allen & Hamilton | Eurostar UK revenue adviser | |
Deloitte & Touche | Accounting and tax adviser | |
AON | Insurance adviser | |
Note: | The total costs of advice to the Department of negotiating the original and restructured deals, along with monitoring of progress on the project, amounted to some £33 million. | |
Advisers to LCR: |
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Deutsche Bank and SBC Warburg Dillon Read | Joint financial advisers | |
Herbert Smith | Legal adviser | |
Clifford Chance | Legal adviser to GGB arrangers | |
Lovell White Durant | Legal adviser to Bechtel | |
Ashurst Morris Crisp | Legal adviser to National Express | |
Nabarro Nathanson | Legal adviser to London Electricity | |
SBC Warburg Dillon Read and HSBC | Joint GGB arrangers | |
PriceWaterhouseCoopers | Financial modelling | |
L.E.K. Consulting | Eurostar UK revenue adviser | |
Ernst & Young | Tax advisers | |
Advisers to Railtrack: |
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N M Rothschild & Sons Limited | Financial adviser | |
Simmons & Simmons | Legal adviser | |
W S Atkins | Technical adviser | |
Deloitte & Touche | Accounting and tax adviser | |
AON | Insurance adviser | |
Advisers to ICRR: |
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Denton Wilde Sapte and Ashurst Morris Crisp | Legal advisers | |