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Colin was highly commended in the prestigious Lawyer of the Year category by the Legal Business Awards 2013 for his work leading the DLA Piper team on the £4.5 billion Intercity Express Programme - advising the Hitachi/John Laing consortium, Agility Trains, on the award-winning (European PPP Project of the Year (PFI Awards), European Rolling Stock Project of the Year (Project Finance Magazine), Partnership Bulletin, Transport Project of the Year, Pathfinder Project of the Year and Global Grand Prix Project of the Year), for the provision of rolling stock to the GWML and ECML. The DLA Piper team also won Partnership Bulletin Legal Adviser of the Year, 2013. Colin also led the DLA Piper team that won the prestigious Lawyer Award for Infrastructure and Projects team of the year 2013.
Colin is regularly mentioned in directories as a leading individual in the projects market whose team is top shelf in "terms of responsiveness", "flexible and solution focused", "providing commercial advice based on market knowledge". Colin is also recognised as having "extensive experience and anticipates client requirements", demonstrating a "keen focus on client needs and being commercial" and being "sensible, very balanced and good to get on with". (Legal 500 and Chambers).