Healthcare

We can advise on:

• business and share acquisitions and disposals of all types of healthcare business;
• investments into and the re-financing of all types of healthcare business;
• re-organisations of healthcare businesses within a group structure; 
• the incorporation of healthcare businesses, dental and pharmacy, producing the necessary tailored shareholder and partnership agreements;
• the wide and varied commercial contracts and arrangements such as local authority contracts, service user agreements, data protection, which affect healthcare providers and their businesses;
• employment law related matters; and 
• their personal succession planning.

Our cases

• acting for both buyers and sellers on the acquisition and disposal of dental practices and pharmacies;
• the re-organisation and re-structuring of healthcare groups and businesses;
• the investment, funding and re-financing of dental practices and pharmacies;
• legal due diligence reporting on the acquisition or disposal of healthcare businesses;
• shareholder agreements, Articles of Association, partnership agreements, LLP members agreements and other forms of collaboration for the owners of healthcare companies and businesses;
• general commercial contract advice; and
• the incorporation of healthcare businesses, including dental and pharmacy practices.

Dental

Our Health & Social Care Team provides practical, expert advice to individual dental practitioners and dental corporates nationwide working both within the NHS and also privately.

Our expertise includes:-

• acquisitions and disposals of dental practices;
• property acquisition and development including health centre developments and planning applications and appeals;
• employment contracts, locum agreements and dispute resolution;
• shareholder arrangements;
• partnership agreements and associate agreements;
• shareholder/partner arrivals and departures;
• shareholder/partner disputes;
• healthcare regulations and the essential standards of quality and safety;
• advice in connection with expense sharing arrangements;
• GDS and PDS contracts;
• data protection;
• intellectual property, both contentious and non-contentious, including trademarks and patents;
• challenging CQC decisions; and
• personal tax and succession planning.

Pharmacies

Our Health & Social Care Team provides practical, expert advice to individual pharmacy practitioners and pharmacy corporates nationwide.

Our expertise includes:-

• acquisitions and disposals of pharmacy businesses and companies;
• property acquisition and development, including health centre developments, pharmacy leases and planning applications and appeals;
• employment contracts, locum agreements and dispute resolution;
• shareholder arrangements;
• partnership agreements and associate agreements;
• shareholder/partner arrivals and departures;
• shareholder/partner disputes;
• Community Pharmacy and framework contracts;
• intellectual property, both contentious and non-contentious, including trademarks and patents;
• data protection; and
• personal tax and succession planning.

Medical centres

We have advised on the following medical centre construction projects:

• Bingham Medical Centre, Nottinghamshire
• Gelligaer Health Centre South Wales
• Health Investor award-winning Moor Park Health and Leisure Centre, Blackpool
• Crompton Health Centre Bolton
• Birkenhead Medical Centre
• Rhymney Integrated Health and Social Care Centre, Caerphilly
• Fresenius Medical Care’s Independent Sector Treatment Centre developments across 12 NHS sites, inclusion new builds and refurbishment of existing NHS buildings and wards to create dialysis outsourcing facilities
• LIFT schemes for local health centre developments on government standard LeasePlus agreements (Birmingham and Solihull, Leicester, South Midlands)