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Largest UK housing association names 17 firms to £40m legal services panel
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.
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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).
Assistant Director - Legal & Governance
£72,686 - £81,742 per annum
Lawyer (Sabbatical)
£50,788 per annum
Director of Legal and Governance (Monitoring Officer)
£88,185 per annum
Senior Lawyer - Advocate
£46,731 - £49,764 per annum
Head of Legal Shared Service
Up to £89,000 per annum
Head of Governance & University Solicitor
Up to £66,537 per annum

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