Social Housing
UK Guide 2025 : North East & Yorkshire
Band 3
Contact number
0113 733 7025Chambers Review
Devonshires has a recognised team who focus on supporting housing associations in legal matters and challenges. Its advice runs the remit of social housing providing assistance on management reviews, acquisitions and governance issues.
Work Highlights
- Devonshires advised Yorkshire Housing on a £74 million loan facility with Saltaire Finance under the government’s Affordable Housing Guarantee Scheme.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"The team at Devonshires are excellent. No question is left unanswered and responses are always prompt, with further explanations provided on other areas which may also be relevant to the question."
"The firm has a depth of knowledge across the company which enables it to handle all issues. The team always provides time to assist when required, no matter what the issue."
"It's a solid consistent team with a deep pool of skills and knowledge."
"Devonshires is a professional, friendly and knowledgeable firm which is able to provide an all-round service that tackles even the most niche, specialist or left-field queries."
"The team provides robust and relevant advice."
"The team at Devonshires are excellent. No question is left unanswered and responses are always prompt, with further explanations provided on other areas which may also be relevant to the question."
"The firm has a depth of knowledge across the company which enables it to handle all issues. The team always provides time to assist when required, no matter what the issue."
"It's a solid consistent team with a deep pool of skills and knowledge."
"Devonshires is a professional, friendly and knowledgeable firm which is able to provide an all-round service that tackles even the most niche, specialist or left-field queries."
"The team provides robust and relevant advice."
Notable Practitioners
Elad Yasdi is an experienced social housing specialist who focuses his practice on complex transactions and development projects. He heads the tenanted portfolio offering at Devonshires.
"Elad Yasdi has time and again proven his expert knowledge, professional advice, availability and competence."
"Elad is strong in his representation of clients' interests."
"Elad takes a keen interest in his clients' targets to make sure they achieve them. He also is approachable, knowledgeable and a great professional."
"He's always available to discuss any complexities and is also very good at breaking things down into non-legalistic terms. He is very commercially aware on risks and implications too."
Chris Drabble is noted for his experience advising a range of housing associations on varied and complex legal matters including acquisitions and private placements.
"His extensive knowledge allows transactions to be executed in a professional and managed way."
"Chris is very easy to work with and very thorough."
"Chris Drabble is clear, communicative and able to distil complex legal matters to the key inputs and outputs."
Justine Hunkins acts for a range of clients in the social housing sector on complex litigation, housing management and asset management matters.
"She's very knowledgeable in her field."
"Justine is good to deal with and takes time to explain complex issues."
Zoe McLean-Wells focuses her practice on advising registered providers on a range of contentious and non-contentious housing management matters. These include issues such as possession proceedings, lease drafting and interpretation, as well as service charges.
"Zoe has an excellent understanding of client needs."
"She's a superb solicitor with vast commercial awareness. She's approachable and honest."
"Her advice is detailed and informative."
Ranked Lawyers at
Devonshires LLP
North East & Yorkshire