University names six providers to legal and patent services contract

The University of Exeter has named six providers to a legal services framework contract worth an estimated £1.5m.

The framework was divided into the following lots:

• Lot 1: Property and Estates
• Lot 2: Employment and Higher Education
• Lot 3: Commercial/Contractual and Intellectual Property
• Lot 4: Patent Services

The successful firms were:

• Appleyard Lees IP (lot 4)
• Browne Jacobson (2, 3)
• Forresters (4)
• Michelmores (1)
• Mills & Reeve (1, 2 3)
• Wilson Gunn (4)