I’ve read a fair few corporate finance documents over the last few weeks. A work stream that I’ve found myself enjoying more and more. However, all too often I’m told by property colleagues “the client doesn’t want advising on...
Our Healthcare team provides a broad range of services to this diverse and enterprising sector. Bringing together a team of specialists from disciplines including property, commercial and litigation, we offer a service dedicated to the needs of the sector and the professionals who work within it.
Importantly, we work closely with our clients' other professional advisers, including banks and accountants, to ensure decisions are not made in isolation that may have unforeseen impacts elsewhere in the business.
Doctors and dentists
We work with a number of doctors' and dentists' practices as they establish themselves, develop, and grow. We take the time to understand the aims and objectives of both the partners and the business before we provide structured and tailored advice.
How we can help GP practices and dentists
- Partnership formation and modification
- The management of new, departing and retiring partners
- Advice on property issues – new builds, leases and development opportunities
- Individual and partnership taxation advice
- Funding agreements
- Recovery of outstanding fees
- Data protection issues and advice
- Partnership disputes – mediation and resolution of disputes
- Multi-practice operations
- Business protection
- Regulatory compliance
- Pharmacy arrangements – advice on current agreements and drafting of new agreements
- Health and safety issues
- The acquisition of and merging with other practices
- Employment law advice
The care sector
The provision of care is a fast-moving and ever-changing sector, as an ageing population and strains on Local Authority finances offer both challenges and opportunities for those involved.
Our experience covers care homes, nursing homes and centres for those with particular medical requirements as well as working with domiciliary care providers.
With a commercial approach, we take into account the fact that there are many external pressures and will work hard with business owners and other stakeholders to achieve practical and realistic outcomes.
How we can help the care sector
- Advice on the building of new care homes, and the regeneration of buildings to meet this need
- Agreements for the management, maintenance and refurbishment of care homes
- Leases and new build advice - contracts, funding and dispute resolution
- Compliance with CQC requirements on all transactions
- Employment law advice
- Recovery of outstanding fees
- Purchase and sale of care homes
- Defending against deprivation of liberty claims
- Health and Safety issues
- Mergers and acquisitions of care home groups including property, finance and employment law aspects
Get in touch with our corporate and commercial solicitors
For further information about our corporate and commercial services, get in touch with our team in Alconbury, Birmingham, Nottingham, Peterborough or Spalding.
