Antony Power
UK Guide 2025
Band 4 : Education: Institutions (Schools)
Band 4
About
Provided by Antony Power
Practice Areas
Antony is a leading education lawyer and Senior Partner at PHP Law LLP. He has extensive experience across the education sector and perhaps best known for delivering one of the largest rescoping of a schools PFI project in the Country.
He is recognised as a leading individual in the Legal 500 2023 and Chambers UK 2023. Over the last couple of years, Antony has advised clients on a range of matters including, supporting on the innovative outsourcing of back-office services at a multi academy trust to a public sector joint venture made up of local authority and CCG shareholders. Further he has provided strategic support to multi academy trusts resulting in those trusts being able to grow.
Career
Antony has considerable experience across a number of sectors including education, healthcare and complex projects. Having spent the majority of his career working in the City of London, he moved to the Southwest in 2013 where he established and grew one of the largest education practices in the UK.
Having experienced the good and bad of legal service provision, Antony joined with some like-minded lawyers in 2020 to develop PHP Law LLP with a view to creating a law firm dedicated to delivering outstanding client service with a moral compass.
Chambers Review
UK
Antony Power is a partner at PHP Law based in Devon. He is highly adept at advising multi-academy trusts on property and procurement matters, as well as employment issues.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"When Antony Power supported us, we found him brilliant, supportive and helpful."
"Antony is extremely knowledgeable and helpful."
"He is a great lawyer and has always given us good advice, particularly in supporting innovative, complex programmes that require sector-leading advice."
"Antony Power is a superb critical friend, whom I can talk through challenges and with whom I horizon scan."
"When Antony Power supported us, we found him brilliant, supportive and helpful."
"Antony is extremely knowledgeable and helpful."
"He is a great lawyer and has always given us good advice, particularly in supporting innovative, complex programmes that require sector-leading advice."
"Antony Power is a superb critical friend, whom I can talk through challenges and with whom I horizon scan."