Health and care: M&A and other corporate transactions


The opportunities in the sector are significant. Our health and care sector expertise and the strength of our national transactional team helps us maximise our opportunities whilst managing the risk.

As your business changes and faces the opportunities and challenges of the health and care sector, our sector specialists advise on growth (through acquisitions or joint ventures), restructuring and exits.

We work with independent health and care sector clients to deliver strategic corporate transactions, bolt-on acquisitions, disposal programmes across the range of M&A, joint ventures, partnerships and refinancings/restructurings.

We help complete transactions that are right given the unique requirements and objectives of each of our clients, balancing risk, maximising opportunities and bringing a wealth of health sector and corporate experience. We help you challenge assumptions, collaborate and hit the ground running.

Our lawyers

With one of the most experienced and sector-focussed corporate health and care teams in the country, we help deliver successful transactions for our clients, managing risk and leveraging sector experience.

Our experience

Our firm-wide strength and sector experience as one of the UK's leading health and care sector firms is epitomised in our corporate health and care team. The corporate health and care team:

  • completes many business and company acquisitions and disposals for UK and international corporate and entrepreneur acquirers and sellers each year.

  • helps clients create innovative solutions to opportunities with complex NHS aspects including cutting edge joint ventures and partnerships with NHS organisations.

  • works exclusively in the health and care sector enabling us to support clients as well as related and adjacent sectors advising on numerous transactions in each year in mental and specialist healthcare, community healthcare, social care, healthtech/medtech, diagnostic/scanning services and technology, dental, veterinary and animal health, life sciences, pharma and clinical trials.

  • works with US and other non-UK investors including numerous UK acquisitions for the largest healthcare businesses in the US ranging from hospital groups to REITs.

  • collaborates with law firms requiring specialist healthcare support on corporate transactions notably in conducting healthcare due diligence exercises for private equity and other financial acquirers as well as large corporates who seek additional health and care sector experience and insight.

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Our clients

  • Advising Operose Health and Centene on the acquisition of AT Medics, one of the largest primary groups in the UK

  • Mubadala's acquisition of a majority stake (alongside former owners Charme Capital and Livingbridge) in The Witherslack Group

  • Elysium Healthcare in relation to specialist healthcare aspects of its sale to Ramsay Health Care

  • Artisan on its $1.7bn merger with Prenetics

  • ARCHIMED SAS on the sale of Vita Health Group to Spire Healthcare Plc

  • Riverdale Healthcare's acquisition of Hanji Dental Care comprising 18 dental practices and a laboratory

  • Strategic acquisitions for various diagnostic providers

  • Numerous acquisitions/disposals for Bupa

  • Various acquisitions for VetPartners

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Sector experience

With the experience of a 120 strong healthcare team, our corporate healthcare team focuses exclusively on the sector.

International

We are helping a number of US and non-UK healthcare corporates and investors with acquisitions, disposals and business launches.

Acquisition and disposal programme experts

We support the UK's largest healthcare businesses on acquisition or disposal programmes including over 50 acquisitions in one case.

Our expertise


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Health and care real estate and capital projects

Health tech

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Mental health

NHS digital transformation

Policy, public law and disputes

Primary care

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What our clients say about us?

“Absolutely outstanding, and I don’t recall ever working with a lawyer with such commercial acumen combined with this level of technical awareness and understanding, and its implications for the client.””

Delta Financial Systems

CEO

““Very pragmatic…deliver solutions and negotiate well.””

Legal 500

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