Healthcare & Life Sciences

Regulatory pressure, cost constraints, and rapid advances in AI and medical technologies are reshaping the healthcare and life sciences landscape, driving innovation while increasing complexity.
To stay competitive, organisations and investors need legal advisers who can navigate risk, unlock value, and keep pace with change.
At Edwin Coe, we enable you to move faster and operate with confidence. Our multidisciplinary Healthcare & Life Sciences team supports you across the full lifecycle, from incorporation and funding, through to IP strategy, regulatory strategy and compliance, operational and workforce planning, commercialisation, and the real estate requirements critical to scaling your operations.

We deliver integrated, commercially focused advice designed to reduce risk, optimise your operating environment, and support sustainable growth in a highly regulated, fast-evolving market.
What we do best:
  • Healthcare & Life Sciences Transactions

    Providing strategic legal advice on mergers, acquisitions, disposals, investments, and financing across the healthcare and life sciences ecosystem.

  • Employment & HR

    Support with employment contracts, workforce management, regulatory obligations, investigations, and disputes.

  • Real Estate Development

    Advising on the full lifecycle of healthcare and life sciences real estate and infrastructure projects, from acquisition and development through to financing, operation, and disposal.

  • Regulatory Compliance

    Navigating CQC standards, data protection, governance, health and safety, and compliance frameworks.

  • Private Client & Tax

    Advising founders, investors, executives, families, and business owners on succession planning, tax structuring, and asset protection.

  • Dispute Resolution

    Managing complex commercial, regulatory, professional negligence, employment, and contractual disputes across the healthcare and life sciences sector.

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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Key Contact
Joanne McIvor
partner
Daniel Bellau
Christopher Pollard
barrister – legal director