We act for a wide range of clients within the healthcare sector including dentists, GPs, care home and nursery providers, pharmacists, opticians and vets. We also work with major healthcare and social care charities.
As a result of our extensive experience of working with healthcare clients, we have excellent connections with key intermediaries in the sector, such as accountants, valuation and marketing agents, funders and other specialist consultants, providing our clients with good access to these experts if they need them.
Our services for the healthcare sector
- Property: acquisition, disposal and leasing of premises, development of new buildings, sale/purchase of businesses
- Corporate: advice on corporate structures (limited companies / limited liability partnerships (LLPs) / partnerships) and related agreements, share sales and acquisitions, terms of business
- Funding: review and negotiation of loan and refinance agreements, personal guarantee advice, and putting in place the required security package.
- Regulation: advice on premises, statutory compliance issues, health and safety, and regulatory licences and consents.
- Litigation: debt recovery, property dispute issues, professional negligence, and employer’s liability.
- Employment: reviewing and preparing employment contracts and employee handbooks, advice on ongoing employment issues, compromise agreements, and guidance for social care providers on payment for sleep-in shifts and National Minimum Wage compliance.
Our recent work in the sector
- Our team assisted a client involved in the dissolution of a pharmacy business to allow recovery of capital and profits.
- Acting for vendor in the sale of a boutique dental practice in Edinburgh to the UK's largest corporate provider of dental services.
- Currently advising numerous healthcare clients on National Minimum Wage and Working Time Regulations, redundancy, restructuring and gross misconduct dismissals.
- Acting for an award winning orthodontic practice in relation to re-financing their business.
- We helped a large Edinburgh-based veterinary practice plan for retirement and we also advised on business succession planning.
- Our lawyers have acted in the purchase and sale of pharmacies across Scotland with the combined value in excess of £10,000,000.
- Acting for the vendor in the sale of three veterinary practices in the West of Scotland to a National Veterinary Group.
- Providing advice on retirement and succession planning to a large veterinary practice in Edinburgh.
- Obtaining interdicts to prevent the unlawful use of confidential information.
