Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) has beaten magic circle competition to scoop the role of lead adviser role to ASFiNAG, the government agency responsible for Austria’s roads, on its €750m (£516.3m) toll motorway project.

The top 20 City firm secured the instruction to advise on Austria’s first major public/private partner-ship (PPP) project in a beauty parade, that included Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer.