Legal advisory services

Tender description

The LDA requires legal advisory services in relation to its ongoing activities envisaged to form part of the LDA mandate. As well as advice in relation the legal issues associated with a Stage Agency, the framework members will be required to provide advice on a wide-ranging number of topics, including but not limited to: Lot 1: General Legal Advisory Services, Lot 2: Property Related Legal Advisory Services. As well as advice in relation the legal issues associated with a Stage Agency, the framework members will be required to provide advice on a wide-ranging number of topics, including but not limited to the following and shall include all other services that are reasonably ancillary and incidental thereto: • design team appointments: — design team appointments and collateral warranties; • procurement: — Procurement strategy and execution including EU procurement issues; • property and land transfers: — procurement/transfers of land from other State Agencies, — title reviews, — title rectification, — storage of title documents and deeds, — conveyances of land/property/units, — affordable covenants, — general advices; • planning permissions: — environmental and planning related advices, — advices re-judicial reviews; • delivery and mechanisms: — delivery mechanisms including the drafting the negotiation of construction contracts, development agreements to include but not limited to: (i) contractor appointments, (ii) licence agreements, (iii) joint venture agreements, (iv) site sales/forward sales of property, (v) hybrids of the above; — contractor appointments and collateral warranties to include direct contractor appointments, licence agreements and joint venture agreements, — Bonds, securities and guarantees, — project insurances; • property related tax advices to include pre-funding agreements and tax structuring of land transactions; • affordable housing/cost rental: — advices on the implications of the commitment to deliver affordable units on: (i) site and property transfers, (ii) onward site disposals, (iii) public procurement, (iv) financing implications, (v) leases / licences; • social housing — sales to AHB’s/local authorities; • finance: — debt and equity financing, — shareholder agreements; • state aid; • employment law: — employment law advices; • dispute resolution; • tenancy: — landlord and tenancy advices, — letting agreements, — management company formation, structures and engagement, — dispute resolution; • information law: — FOI legislation, — data protection legislation; • insurance • general legal advices. The legal services to be provided may also include the provision of: • legal secondees upon request of the contracting authority and subject to terms to be agreed between the contracting authority and the legal advisor(s); • training on topics to be agreed between the contracting authority and the legal advisor(s) from time to time; and • referrals to law firms in other jurisdictions or to other legal advisors, to the extent that the contracting authority so requests. As well as advice in relation the legal issues associated with a Stage Agency, the framework members will be required to provide advice on a wide-ranging number of topics, including but not limited to the following and shall include all other services that are reasonably ancillary and incidental thereto: • property and land transfers: — procurement/transfers of land from other State Agencies, — title reviews, — title rectification, — storage of title documents and deeds, — conveyances of land/property/units, — affordable covenants, — general advices; • planning permissions: — environmental and planning related advices, — advices re-Judicial Reviews; • affordable housing/cost rental: — advices on the implications of the commitment to deliver affordable units on: (i) site and property transfers, (ii) onward site disposals, (iii) public procurement, (iv) financing implications, (v) leases/licences; • social housing — sales to AHB’s/local authorities; • dispute resolution; • employment law; • tenancy: — landlord and tenancy advices, — letting agreements, — management company formation, structures and engagement, — dispute resolution; • insurance; • tax; • general legal advices. The legal services to be provided may also include the provision of: • legal secondees upon request of the contracting authority and subject to terms to be agreed between the contracting authority and the legal advisor(s); • training on topics to be agreed between the contracting authority and the legal advisor(s) from time to time; and • referrals to law firms in other jurisdictions or to other legal advisors, to the extent that the contracting authority so requests.