Healthcare

Our specialist services

Whether you are navigating routine matters or transformative projects, we provide specialist legal support. Our core areas of expertise include:

• Corporate mergers & acquisitions – disposals, re-organisations, funding and investments.
• Property and construction – commercial property transactions (including leasing, acquisitions and sales), planning and development.
• Regulatory matters – complex mental capacity and adult safeguarding litigation; serious incident investigations and inquests; criminal prosecutions; professional regulatory advice and investigations; and advising on complex patient care including the interface between the legal frameworks of the Mental Health Act and Mental Capacity Act.
• Routine business services – HR and employment law, commercial contracts, governance and data protection.
• Healthcare finance – development funding, acquisition funding and refinancing of care homes.
• Continuing healthcare funding – advice on eligibility for NHS Continuing Healthcare, including training to care professionals and the voluntary sector.
• Private Wealth – drafting wills, powers of attorney, and trust structures to protect and transfer wealth efficiently

Related services:

• Professional regulation – Our Professional Regulation team acts for regulators, sports bodies and professionals throughout England and Wales.
• Adult social services – We are the leading Welsh provider of outsourced legal services to local authority adult social services teams

Sector experience

Examples of some of our most significant work includes:

• Advising on the sale of Partnership of Care to leading supported care provider Mysa Care.
• Advising Avicenna Retail, the largest independent pharmacy group in England and Wales on multiple acquisitions and disposals.
• Advising Glamorgan Care on the successful sale of all entire issued share capital to My Choice Healthcare.
• Advising on the reorganisation of Primacare Holdings Group, a bespoke seating company specialising in innovative healthcare chairs.
• Advising Rocialle Healthcare on the acquisition of Ward Mobility.
• Advising Sheppards Pharmacy Group on the sale of their 36-branch retail pharmacy group to a national operator.
• Advising Shaw Healthcare on the transfer of care homes.
• Advising BMP Healthcare on the highest dispensing pharmacy in England.
• Sole provider of legal advice to fitness to practice panels to Social Care Wales (the regulator of the social care workforce in Wales), including advice on diverse issues and provision of training.
• Advising and representing Hywel Dda University Health Board in complex Court of Protection proceedings which dealt with ceiling of care, contested applications for Deputy orders, and deprivation of liberty.
• Exclusive legal representatives to Llais Wales, the national, independent body set up by Welsh Government to help decision-makers to plan and deliver better health and social care services.
• Advising Creo Medical on the acquisition of the freehold interest in its Chepstow headquarters and adjacent site.
• Advising a challenger bank on two refinances to a Care Home provider in England.
• Advising Development Bank of Wales and BGF on the investment into Ceryx Medical Ltd.