Healthcare
Our Healthcare Group is made up of a team of legal experts, who between them have over 100 years' experience in the healthcare field. We advise on nursing homes, dental practices, medical practices, pharmacies and veterinary practices. If you are in the business of providing healthcare services in any one of a number of healthcare industry spheres, then talk to us before you talk to anybody else. We provide quality assured legal advice with the right team, at the right level, at the right price.
Care homes
Our lawyers deal with a significant number of nursing home transactions acting for both seller and buyer with deals ranging from owner-managed existing nursing homes to share purchases involving acquisition of land for developing new build nursing homes and lease to the major institutional players.
We are particularly proud of being in a position to assist our clients in developing their portfolio and provide practical and commercial assistance in the registration process, due diligence and providing a proactive approach to lender's requirements based on our dealings with specialist lenders in the health care sector.
We understand the requirement to proceed quickly with these deals as most nursing home opportunities attract huge interest. We therefore appreciate the importance of providing to our clients commercial and time sensitive advice.
Contacts - Dinesh Raja, Managing Partner or Huseyin Youssouf, Partner
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Dental group
Our Dental group has been advising dentists for many years now and has built up a well deserved reputation of providing excellent dental specific legal advice.
Our lawyers regularly advise both purchasers and sellers of dental practices and have a thorough understanding of the key issues in any transaction whether the practice be NHS or private. The group always strives to offer its dental clients cost effective but commercially focused legal solutions.
Our dispute resolution lawyers in the Dental group offer assistance in defending alleged claims for clinical negligence and are able to safely guide their clients through what can sometimes be a difficult and stressful process.
Contacts - Dinesh Raja, Managing Partner
Medical practices
Buying or selling a healthcare practice has unique complexities. It is the solicitor's role to guide all parties through as smoothly as possible. Practice income depends on sums arriving from a number of sources, including the NHS, private patients and insurance schemes.
Our lawyers will remember that while healthcare is the aim, every doctor's practice is a commercial enterprise and commercial considerations apply to it as to any other business
When Bowling & Co act for a doctor or a dentist selling his practice then we will seek to put together as comprehensive a package of papers as possible so that the buyer can proceed confidently. We will assist in ensuring that the practice for sale should look as good as it can, with all the papers in order.
When acting for a buyer, or a doctor entering into a partnership, we will look to ensure that the practice can be taken over smoothly with as little disruption as possible. We will want to ensure that the Seller gives adequate warranties in case not all the representations made at the beginning are reliable. The buyer might agree not to a fixed price but a price that depends on the practice income over the next year. Again, this needs careful drafting.
Bowling & Co can also act on "Private Finance Initiative" projects. The availability of this new source of finance provides more opportunity for substantial surgery development and releases more money for the doctor's acquisition of equipment. The agreements must be carefully drafted to ensure that the funder / developer provides what is promised and that they cannot get away with doing a shoddy job: it must be recognised that any private finance venture will be more governed by the profit margin than by healthcare requirements. Private finance is allowing more money to go into healthcare than ever before. It is improving healthcare. However care must be taken and doctors entering into these arrangements must be aware of what they are entering. Our lawyers will be able to assist in this regard.
Contact - Dinesh Raja, Managing Partner
Pharmacy
The pharmacy sector is now becoming an increasingly specialised area and a pharmacist's need for legal advice from lawyers with experience and understanding of this market will be paramount in ensuring any sale or purchase of a pharmacy will proceed smoothly.
Our pharmacy group regularly advises on the broad spectrum of pharmaceutical acquisitions work from first pharmacy purchases, dealing with relocation or the sale of an entire portfolio.
Our lawyers thorough understanding of the key issues and legislation surrounding this business sector means we are able to deliver a fast and cost effective service to our clients.
Contacts - Dinesh Raja, Managing Partner
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