Our health and social care lawyers have over 20 years’ experience in the social care sector acting for investors, operators and funders. We take the time to work with our clients to understand the particular challenges that the sector faces so that we can provide the proactive, sector-specialist advice that your business needs. Never has this been more important than during the Covid-19 pandemic, at a time when we know that you will need to work with trusted social care legal advisers. The quality of service provided by the team is recognised by our shortlisting for national legal awards at the market-leading Health Investor Awards and Laing Buisson Awards for the third year running.
Collaboration is the key to our service. We work closely with specialist health and social care lawyers from across our firm to provide advice tailored to each client. With a pool of expertise spanning areas including banking, corporate, commercial, construction, employment, planning, real estate, and regulatory at our disposal, we provide a complete legal service on the full range of services in the sector.
In addition to English and Welsh law specialists, our team includes Scottish and Northern Irish qualified lawyers, allowing us to offer advice and support with transactional and operational matters across the whole of the UK.
Areas of focus
Our team has the following expertise:
- Corporate governance and group reorganisations for social care providers and investors.
- Significant experience in care home and specialist care consolidations, acquisitions and disposals.
- Development of care home and retirement communities.
- Advising both lenders and borrowers on acquisition, development and working capital funding.
- Real estate portfolio management.
- Restructuring and recovery work with significant experience advising on distressed care home loans for numerous lenders
- Supply chain contracts.
- Regulatory matters.
- Technology and intellectual property.
- Employment and pensions services.