Health Care & Later Living

Our multidisciplinary team provides legal support to care home operators, medical investors, and later living developers.
Our team advises on real estate, employment, and regulatory matters across the health and social care spectrum.

We understand the sensitivities and compliance demands of the sector. Our advice is practical, risk-aware, and aligned with the operational realities of delivering care.
What we do best:
  • Care Home Transactions

    Advising on acquisitions, disposals, and funding of care facilities.

  • Employment & HR

    Supporting providers with contracts, safeguarding, and workforce disputes.

  • Real Estate Development

    Structuring and financing later living and retirement housing schemes.

  • Regulatory Compliance

    Navigating CQC standards, data protection, and health & safety.

  • Private Client & Tax

    Advising families and operators on estate planning and asset protection.

  • Dispute Resolution

    Managing claims involving residents, staff, or suppliers.

EXAMPLES OF OUR WORK
Advising on the £21 million acquisition of portfolio of companies owning and operating six residential care homes in England and Scotland including acting on corporate, real estate, IP, debt-finance and employment issues
Advising Churchgate Estates on the £55 million sale of a portfolio of five operating care homes to a leading US real estate investment trust
Advising Bolt Asset Management, the care home operator on a £7.5 million strategic acquisition of three care homes and the underlying operating businesses
Advising on the complex corporate acquisition of a social housing provider, which involved the sale and lease back of properties with a large private equity investor
Advising a care home developer on a professional negligence claim against its solicitors who had failed to advise on the existence of a restrictive covenant preventing any development of a plot of land which the claimant purchased
Advising a care home operator in a complex dispute with its insurance brokers involving the insolvency of its insurers followed 14 days later by a flood which caused £2 million damage
Successfully obtaining a Sponsor Licence for a care home provider with multiple sites across the UK. Thereafter obtaining a Skilled Worker/Health and Care Worker visa for several EU and non-EU nationals, allowing them to legally work for the care home provider in the UK
Advising on the disposal of a healthcare operator for £19 million which included advising on corporate, debt-restructuring, real estate, employment, immigration, tax and IP.
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