Angelica Hymers
Principal Associate
Nottingham
angelica.hymers@brownejacobson.com
+44 (0)115 976 6092
Angelica is a principal associate in our government and infrastructure team. She advises public and private sector bodies on subsidy control and state aid, as well as commercial contracts and public procurement.
Angelica has a strong practice in state aid/subsidy control, commercial contracts and public procurement. She regularly advises central and local government clients, educational institutions and public sector bodies on the procurement, contractual and subsidy control implications of large projects and funding applications.
Angelica works closely with clients at all stages of their projects and clients value her strategic and practical advice. She is regularly instructed by private and public sector bodies, which means that she sees both sides of the fence and can use that experience to her clients’ advantage.
Angelica regularly writes on subsidy control issues and has had articles published by the UK State Aid Lawyers Association, Local Government Lawyer and The Lawyer. She also provides training to clients on subsidy control, grant agreements and contracts and regularly presents on issues in these fields. Her seminars and webinars receive excellent client feedback.
Featured experience
Manchester City Council
Advising on the construction and ongoing development of Manchester’s flagship city-centre heat network. Our role was broad, including contractual, procurement, subsidy control, funding and governance advice.
Many local authorities
Providing subsidy control advice to multiple local authorities on their bids for levelling up and towns deal funding.
A large combined authority
Advising on the subsidy control and commercial aspects of the authority’s programme for the UK Shared Prosperity Fund.
A national non-departmental public body
Advising a body responsible for environmental matters on the implications for a nationwide subsidy scheme of the subsidy control rules under the TCA and the Subsidy Control regime under the Subsidy Control Act 2022.
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