Legal services

Tender description

Legal Services for England, Scotland and the Isle of Man. Services include Property and Construction (including property litigation); Conveyancing; Housing and housing litigation (including regulatory advice); Contracts, commercial, IT, data protection, IP, procurement, health and safety and regulatory crime; Corporate, banking, finance, securitisation and tax; Employment and pensions. Site acquisitions. — Disposals. — Property due diligence on mergers and acquisitions. — Planning agreements and obligations including Section 106, Section 38 and section 104 agreements. — General property advice leases, licences, covenants, restrictions, easements, rights of way, party walls and boundaries, deeds of variation, auction packs, deeds of surrender and statutory declarations. — Lease advice and leasehold management queries— Property litigation matters — Construction documentation—Construction litigation. — Asset management advice — Management agreements and service occupancy agreements. — Related litigation and dispute resolution. — General advice and training. — Plot sales on new developments (at volume). — Shared ownership schemes including leases, staircasing and transfer (on final tranche). — Rent to buy schemes. — Shared ownership staircasing disposals. —Leasehold / shared ownership re-sales. — Right to Buy, right to acquire and voluntary sales schemes and disposals. — Repurchase of repossessed shared ownership properties (lender repossessions, buy backs).— General conveyancing matters (including the provision of regulatory guidance and advice). — Regulatory consents advice in respect of disposals of social housing. — Tenancy agreement advice. —Rent to Home Buy, Intermediate Market Rent; market rent advice and dispute .— Advice on policies. — Allocations, nominations and Choice Based Lettings agreements. — Possession proceedings, ombudsman complaints, orders and injunctions. — Advice on disrepairs including defending claims and counterclaims on grounds of disrepair and advising on settlement. — Debt recovery. — Tenancy issues. — Leasehold advice. — Health &Safety advice and dispute resolution. — Other related litigation and dispute resolution. — General advice and training.. — Advice on and negotiation and termination of commercial contracts, service level agreements, care and support. — Data protection, including Data Subject Access Requests, data sharing with third parties, Freedom of Information Act, ICO guidance and advice and training. — Information technology contracts and litigation, outsourcing, software and cloud contracts. — Procurement law,. — Commercial due diligence. — Health and safety law and management of risk. — Licencing arrangements, consumer credit. — General contract advice. — Advising in relation to intellectual property issues. — Providing advice in relation to significant incidents, in particular supporting the Group to minimise risk in relation to investigations by regulators, coroners' inquests and criminal prosecutions,. — Related litigation and dispute resolution. — Advice on corporate structuring, including joint ventures, special purpose vehicles and structures. — Mergers, acquisitions and Transfers of Engagement including carrying out due diligence. — Associated lender and regulatory consents. — Advice on different types of legal entities. — Conversions of entities. — Advice on existing and new loan facilities and changes to existing facilities and negotiation of associated documentation. — Advice on complex financing and leasing arrangements. — Bond issues. — Securitisation advice and support to ensure timely action to put properties into charge and take properties out of charge in line with securitisation plans. — Tax advice including corporation tax, VAT, SDLT and relevant exemptions. — Advice on corporate governance. — Related litigation and dispute resolution. — General advice and training. — Employment law advice, including employment contracts, dispute resolution (including tribunals) and settlement agreements. — Equality and diversity and discrimination advice. — The application of TUPE inrespect of Transfers of Engagements and mergers and acquisitions, new contracts and changes in service provision. — Employment and pensions due diligence on mergers and acquisitions. — Pensions advice and guidance (including advice on LGPS pension risks and liabilities). — Training updates on legislation and keycase law. — General advice. — Related litigation and dispute resolution. — As Lot 1 above PLUS: — Understanding of Scottish property and charitable law, including restrictions around funding. — Market and mixed tenure products, including Mid Market Rent schemes. — Mixed tenure development schemes across entities. — As Lot 3 above plus — Factoring advice. — As Lot 4 above but not including IT. As Lot 5 above. As Lot 6 above. — Company secretarial provision (as registered office for Isle of Man companies). — General legal advice relating to corporate / company structure, tax and finance.