Largest UK housing association names 17 firms to £40m legal services panel

August 2, 2022

The UK’s largest housing association, Clarion Housing Group, has appointed 17 law firms to a panel of providers of legal services worth an estimated £40m.

Clarion was seeking to appoint firms to provide services in the following specialisms:

Treasury and finance
Securitisation and charging
Employment
Housing management, litigation and operations
Property – Commercial assets
Property – Residential and Conveyancing
Development – Land and Partnerships
Development – Design and Technical
Development – Project Management & commercial and Delivery
Development – Development Management
General

Twenty-nine tenders were received.

The successful firms were:

Anthony Collins Solicitors
BDB Pitmans
Birketts
Capsticks Solicitors
Clarke Willmott
DAC Beachcroft
Devonshires Solicitors
Gowling WLG (UK)
Hugh James
Penningtons Manches Cooper
Pinsent Masons
Sharratts (London)
Shoosmiths
Trowers & Hamlins
Walker Morris
Weightmans
Winckworth Sherwood

The contract was awarded on the basis of quality (weighting: 80) and price (weighting: 20).