The UK healthcare sector is one of the most heavily regulated sectors in the UK. The Covid-19 pandemic, advances in technology and changes in strategy have led to great change in both the NHS and private sectors. Private investment (domestic and international) into the UK healthcare sector continues to grow notwithstanding funding challenges faced by the NHS. Specialist legal support is required when investing in these areas.
As leading UK healthcare lawyers, we have acted for clients making investments in all parts of the healthcare sector across the UK, including within the care, medical, dental and pharmaceutical sectors. We act for clients considering investment in both the NHS and private sectors. In addition, we have also advised investors seeking opportunities within the digital and health tech space, as well as those looking to invest in healthcare property in the UK.
We provide specialist, commercially focussed advice and support to individual investors, private equity houses and other institutional investors based both domestically and internationally.
We have acted for private equity investors in relation to buy-and-build strategies and on high value transactions. We are happy to be flexible in our approach and we have worked on behalf of investors and sellers and also alongside retained lawyers undertaking healthcare specific due diligence exercises.
As beneficiaries, HEIs can often find themselves involved in slow or deadlocked estate administration. We advise HEIs on the options available to them, from guiding them through the administration and prompting the Executors into action, through to the ultimate sanction of the removal of Executors, where necessary by court application, if they have breached their legal duties.
A Franchise of beauty and dermatology clinics
VWV assisted an international law firm in relation to the acquisition of a UK wide beauty clinic group by a US based private equity firm. The group operated 51 sites across the UK and the deal was valued at approximately £35 million.
Working to tight timescales, our team provided advice and support around the following key areas:
• The regulatory healthcare landscape in England, Wales and Scotland:
• Raising enquiries and reviewing due diligence documents and responses in relation to:
• Identifying material non-compliance and advising on commercial risks.
• In addition, warranties in sale documentation were reviewed and further enquiries suggested to address identified issues.
Dental Sector Support
Our team were instructed to provide due diligence and regulatory support to a UK Private Equity firm in relation to two proposed purchases of UK based dental corporate groups. We worked alongside the Private Equity firm and their instructed law firm.
Specifically, we provided the following key advice:
• suggesting and reviewing sector specific due diligence enquiries and responses
• providing specialist input in relation to NHS dental contracting, requiring deatiled knowledge of:
NHS GP sector support
VWV assisted an international law firm which acted for a large corporate healthcare group with consolidated revenue of just under £40,000,000. They were working to consolidate and reorganise the group, which was made up of several subsidiary companies providing a range of healthcare services.
Specifically, we provided the following key advice:
• advice in relation to accessing the NHS Pension scheme under several proposed solutions
• advice relating to the eligibility requirements for primary medical service contracts
The partners and staff that I have dealt with have been knowledgeable and can explain the issues and relevance to the problems at hand.
Our healthcare lawyers invest a great deal of time in gaining an understanding of what's going on in the sector to provide you with informed legal advice, training and support.
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