Veterinary Solicitors
The landscape for vets is constantly evolving, with new challenges arising in regulatory compliance, liability and business operations.
As legal experts with a deep focus on the veterinary industry, we are committed to providing vets with innovative legal solutions, actionable insights and strategic partnerships that ensure the smooth operation of their practices and the protection of their professional interests.
Whether you’re managing a small single site practice or running a large veterinary referral hospital, our dedicated team is here to support you every step of the way.
Our team specialises in veterinary law, providing expert veterinary legal advice to independent vets, veterinary practices, corporate groups and representative bodies.
If you are buying or selling a practice, handling partnership agreements or navigating RCVS regulations, we offer clear, practical guidance tailored to your needs. We also support practices with dispute resolution, data protection and health and safety matters, ensuring you have the right legal foundations in place.
Our expertise
With extensive experience in veterinary law, we take the time to get to know you, your practice and your needs. Our clear, tailored veterinary legal advice can help you navigate the complex and rapidly changing veterinary healthcare landscape. We are here to offer practical solutions that protect your business and support your success.
We advise on the following areas:
We can support you to ensure that your practice is compliant and prepared for an inspection by the Veterinary Medicines Directorate. We can also assist you to meet the required standards to achieve Practice Standards Scheme accreditation and with preparing for your RCVS inspection. We can additionally help with challenging the factual accuracy of inspection reports and the inspection process.
If any fitness to practise concerns arise, we can support your veterinary professionals with responding to RCVS investigations and representation throughout any proceedings that arise from allegations of impairment or serious misconduct.
From partnership disputes, commercial disputes and procurement challenges, to litigation flowing from purchase and sale of a veterinary business, we can support you in a wide range of dispute resolution. Where possible, we assist clients to pursue alternative dispute resolution (ADR) options (including negotiation, round table meetings and mediation).
Buying or selling a veterinary practice can be a complex process. We provide a range of services and support around due diligence, business sale and purchase agreements, freehold and leasehold premises and staff transfers.
We can provide you with support in relation to all aspects of compliance, professional regulation and registration.
From drafting to reviewing, we can support you with the full range of commercial contracts associated with your veterinary business. Our Commercial team includes information law specialists who can assist you to ensure you are complying with data protection laws and help you respond to a breach or subject access request.
We have extensive experience to assist with all of your premises needs, including purchasing and taking leases of premises, refinancing arrangements, premises development, premises sales and auctions. For leasehold premises, we can help you to manage your landlord and tenant relationship, from negotiating leases to documenting consents and pursuing any leasehold breaches and other disputes.
Our support covers all areas of veterinary law more broadly, so if you have any specific questions, please do speak to a member of the team.
Ben Willis, Rebecca Beardsley and Gemma Pouncy are excellent and a pleasure to deal with.
Our work highlights
Sale and purchase
We advised on the acquisition of a large practice from a national franchise operator
Investigation support
We represented a vet during interview and throughout an investigation being conducted by the Animal and Plant Health Agency, arising from alleged regulatory breaches.
Acting for representative bodies
We act on behalf of the largest UK association for equine dentistry, that includes vets within its council and membership. This includes advising the association with regards to governance and reputation management. We have also been representing the Association during roundtable meetings with the RCVS and DEFRA and with advancing its interests in relation to legislative reform in the sector.
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