Major affordable housing provider names 19 law firms to £250m legal services framework

Hyde, which provides housing to more than 100,000 people, divided the framework into the following lots:

1. Governance, Corporate, Regulatory and Statutory

2. Treasury and Finance

3. Charging of property

4. Housing and Portfolio Management

5a. Property: Residential Property Conveyancing

5b. Property: Development and construction (and general property matters)

5c. Property: Planning

6. Employment, TUPE and Pensions.

7. Commercial, Procurement, IT, IP, Health and Safety.

The successful firms were:

• Anthony Collins Solicitors
• Batchelors Solicitors
• Bevan Brittan
• Birketts
• Capsticks
• Clarke Willmott
• CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang
• Devonshires Solicitors
• Foot Anstey
• Forbes Solicitors
• Gowling WLG (UK)
• Norton Rose Fulbright
• Penningtons Manches Cooper
• Pinsent Masons
• Sharratts (London)
• Town Legal 
• Trowers & Hamlins
• Walker Morris
• Winckworth Sherwood

The contract starts on 2 November 2022 and runs until 1 November 2026. The framework is for the use of The Hyde Group primarily but also for the use of other public sector authorities.