Care
With unrivalled experience and expertise in the care sector, we are at the forefront of legal developments within the care space and understand the challenges imposed by change in regulation, financial markets and attitude to funding.
About our care sector expertise
Whether you’re a care operator, investor or developer, legal advice that saves you time and money allows you to focus on what you do best. Our team of cross-disciplinary lawyers are market-leading specialists in the private care sector.
With unrivalled experience and expertise in the sector, we are at the forefront of legal developments within the care space and understand the challenges imposed by change in regulation, financial markets and attitude to funding.
We are entrenched in the sector and have strong long-standing relationships with key personalities and organisations within it. We know what you need to know.
Our dedicated partners leading each matter are ‘hands on’ and live to the nuances of the sector. We are one of only a handful of UK firms to have acted on international REIT care investment transactions.
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Why choose our care sector legal experts?
Our expert knowledge of the regulatory regime enables us to give advice which is relevant to you. We advise on all matters in the sector including regulatory, real estate, corporate, banking, employment and disputes.
We act on all transactions and matters including:
- Advice from our experienced specialist GDPR, ePrivacy and cyber law lawyers including data audits/GDPR compliance projects, data policies and procedures, data breach handling/reporting, data subject rights request handling and drafting and negotiating data sharing and processing agreements
- Corporate acquisitions and disposals
- Refinancing & restructuring
- Institutional sale & leasebacks
- Property development and construction
- Planning appraisals and obtaining planning permissions
- Criminal investigations and regulatory proceedings that are brought by the CQC. This includes appeals to the first tier tribunal
- Specialised domestic and international REIT work (including dealing with US style ‘triple net’ leases and framework agreements)
- Credit control services
- Commercial dispute matters including professional negligence claims, breach of contract, insurance claims, shareholder disputes and debt recovery
- Insolvency matters including claims by an insolvency practitioner against a director or third party
- Advice from our specialist employment and immigration teams to support your recruitment and HR needs
You can trust us to advise on high-profile claims, high-value transactions and complex regulatory matters. We provide partner-led relationships and service delivery. We act for clients in a collaborative, positive and result-focused manner. We do not point-score.
Key People
Thomas Golding
Partner & Joint Head of Care
Our clients & notable work
We provide transactional and legal advice on all matters in the care sector. Here is just a sample of our clients and most notable transactions.
- Acquisition by Maria Mallaband Care Group of the entire issued share capital of Acer Healthcare; one of the largest private company acquisitions in the sector, with loan funding from US REIT, HCP Inc
- The sale of a portfolio of 23 UK wide senior living facilities to US based REIT, HCP Inc for £75.8 million (including leaseback and portfolio securitisation)
- The corporate sale by LNT Group of the Ideal Carehomes Group (incorporating 25 operating care facilities) for in excess of £100 million to Anchor Trust
- Acting for Country Court Care Group on its refinancing of 7 care homes with a UK clearing bank
- The entrance to the UK market of a new senior living care village platform funded by a global institutional investor, with an aggregate investment value of c£800 million
- Agreement for development and lease of a brand new luxury 64-bed care home by Baycroft Senior Living
- Acquisition, funding (including facility agreements), forward development and sale contract for a £9.8 million care home development by Pivotal Care to Target Healthcare REIT
- The £15 million development financing of a retirement village utilising a Sharia compliant funding arrangement, using a Murabaha structure
- A private equity development funding programme relating to 15 care home constructions over an 8 year period with an equity injection of £50 million
- Development funding by Clydesdale/Yorkshire Bank healthcare team for various luxury care home developments totalling circa £50 million.
- Advising LNT Group, one of the UK’s leading care home developers, on a deal with Oakdale Care Group and Target Healthcare REIT on forward commit contracts for the development and sale of 4 purpose built residential care homes for the elderly
- Guiding a national operator on the revamping of its suite of resident contracts and agreements following the CMA investigation into the care sector
- Advising a provider on a CMA investigation and intervention
- Assisting various operators with CQC enforcement and tribunal matters (including coroner’s inquests and health & safety investigations)
- Helping operators with employee immigration compliance (providing visa specialist support, including Tier 2 and 5 licensing assistance)
- Acacia Care Group
- Allied Healthcare
- Alysia Caring Group
- Anchor Hanover Group
- Athena Care Homes
- Bank Leumi (UK) Plc
- Baycroft Senior Villages
- Belmont Healthcare
- Berkley Care Group
- BKR Care Consultancy
- CareSolve
- Clydesdale & Yorkshire Banking Group
- Country Court Care Group
- Eastern Counties Care
- Hallmark Care Homes
- Hamberley Developments
- ID Medical Group
- Ideal Carehomes
- Kingsley Healthcare
- Lawrence Baker Group
- Lloyds Bank
- LNT Group
- Marchese Partners UK
- Maria Mallaband Care Group
- Oakdale Care Group
- Only Care Group
- Sandstone Care
- Savista Developments Limited
- Westmoreland Supported Living
Testimonials
CW
"Freeths have been advising the Maria Mallaband Group for many years, particularly on the acquisition, development and funding of our new care home...
Chris Womack, Business Development Director
MMCG
PR
"As a longstanding adviser to the LNT Group, Thomas leads the team providing our real estate legal services - and can be relied upon to provide a p...
Philip Raven, Director
LNT Group
“The firm is adept at complex matters and finding pragmatic solutions. It's a great team with good communication between them.”
Chambers & Partners, 2024
“Freeths have a very good knowledge of the sector.”
Chambers & Partners, 2024
"The team at Freeths are extremely helpful, knowledgeable and always available to their clients. The team is diverse with the right mix of age, gen...
Legal 500, 2022
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Thomas Golding
Partner & Joint Head of Care
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