Homes England - Legal Services Framework 2026-2030

An overview of the Real Estate and Investment legal services we are seeking to procure includes: Mandatory (a) Real Estate: including Acquisitions, Disposals and Building Leases; (b) Real Estate Litigation including mortgage enforcement and possession claims; (c) Development & Construction incl. building safety regime; (d) Planning: including CPO; (e) Environmental Law including biodiversity & net gain (f) Commercial Property: Property Finance, (g) Infrastructure and Regeneration (including unincorporated delivery routes); (h) Property: plot sales and estate management; (i) Grant Agreements and associated matters; (j) Affordable Housing and Shared Ownership; (k) Banking (development finance to SMEs/bilateral loans (work currently undertaken via our SME lending team) and any consequential initial Restructuring (in the event of default e.g. reservation of rights letters); (l) Public/Administrative Law incl. procurement & subsidy control; (m) Commercial law; (n) Contracts (goods, works and services); (o) Intellectual Property; (p) Employment Law; Additional Services (Optional) (q) Landlord and Tenant (r) Residential mortgage regulatory advice and residential mortgage repossession (s) Agricultural law; (t) Debt Recovery

An overview of Corporate legal services we are seeking to procure includes: (a) Banking- structured real estate finance, infrastructure finance, lending alliances and MMC (and associated disciplines for legal compliance); (b) Guarantees (to be issued by Homes England and associated structures); (c) Equity Finance including venture structures and joint ventures (and associated disciplines for legal compliance) (For private equity and venture capital activity - including related fund formation, capital deployment, acquisitions, debt and equity financing, complex restructurings, portfolio management and exits) and ancillary services including IP; (d) Infrastructure and Regeneration (including incorporated delivery routes); (e) Restructuring (including in the event of distress) and Insolvency; (f) Company law: corporate law matters including SPVs and Joint Ventures - contractual and company structures to deliver land and investment transactions; (g) Financial Regulation and Taxation; (h) Public/Administrative Law incl. procurement & subsidy control; Additional Services (Optional) (i) Affordable Housing and Shared Ownership; (j) Funds (regulated and quasi regulated)