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Healthcare
Leading individuals
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- Saimo Chahal Bindmans LLP
- John Chapman Bevan Brittan LLP
- Christian Dingwall Hempsons
- Peter Edwards Capsticks
- Barry Francis Pinsent Masons
- Neil Grant Ridouts LLP
- John Holmes Hempsons
- Stephen Hughes Bevan Brittan LLP
- Ashley Irons Capsticks
- Bertie Leigh Hempsons
- Chris Morris Hempsons
- Andrew Parsons RadcliffesLeBrasseur
- David Reissner Charles Russell LLP
Beachcroft offers expertise across the board within the health sector, including in specialist pensions, employment and regulatory matters, and commercial litigation. Highlights included advising Hull Teaching Primary Care Trust (PCT) on the pensions implications arising from the first completed PCT transfer of healthcare services. The team also advised on a region-wide strategy for compliance with statutory equality duties. The hugely experienced Elizabeth Adams leads the practice, with support from employment head Nick Chronias, Anne Crofts, Jean Richards, Campbell Dye, Corinne Slingo and Julian Gizzi.
Bevan Brittan LLP’s team has ‘excellent industry knowledge’, and acts for 162 NHS clients and 40 non-NHS clients. In 2010 it won a number of new instructions from clients including Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust and Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust, PCTs, and private sector organisations such as Johnson & Johnson. The practice was also heavily involved in Transforming Community Services (TCS) transactions. Stephen Hughes and John Chapman lead a well-established team, based in London, Bristol and Birmingham; it includes Ian Caplan, Joanne Easterbrook and Nadia Persaud.
The highly regarded practice at Capsticks is ‘willing to go the extra mile’, and in 2010 dealt with a number of public sector reorganisations and redevelopments, including advising Wandsworth PCT on the transfer of its £93m community services business and its £15m support services business. Peter Edwards’ team, which acts out of the firm’s Birmingham and London offices, is also at the forefront of policy development, and assisted NHS London with the preparation of guidance for PCTs, GPs and hospital commissioners. Primary care head James Reynolds, Colin Lynch, John Witt, Alison Morley and Gary Hay are recommended.
Bertie Leigh’s well-respected team at Hempsons remains at the forefront of policy change in the NHS. In 2010 the team completed 14 TCS transactions; represented the Department of Health and the National Patient Safety Agency in the high-profile Mid Staffordshire Public Inquiry; and was appointed to all seven health and social care legal services panels across England. The team now acts for 189 NHS organisations, including over 50% of all PCTs. Christian Dingwall, Jamie Foster, Lynne Abbess and Janice Barber are all recommended.
For claimant litigation, Bindmans LLP is ‘absolutely excellent in every way’. The team has an enviable success rate, recently acting in R (Savage) v South Essex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, in which it was found the defendant had violated the victim’s right to family life. The team also acted in the right-to-die case of R (Tony Nicklinson) v MOJ. Practice head Saimo Chahal is ‘the firm’s expert in this field’, supported by ‘an array of talent’. John Halford is ‘an outstanding public law litigator’; Charlotte Haworth Hird is ‘highly intelligent, very thorough and incredibly concise’; and Sara Lomri has ‘a great eye for a novel legal argument’.
Browne Jacobson LLP’s ‘excellent and extremely responsive’ practice represented The George Eliot Hospital in a high-profile inquest into a police custody death; acted for South Staffordshire PCT in the Mid Staffordshire Inquiry; and acted for PCTs such as Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospital NHS Trust on various TCS projects. Practice head Simon Tait and Neil Ward are ‘outstanding lawyers’ who are ‘always willing to go the extra mile’.
Mills & Reeve LLP has an ‘excellent knowledge base’ and provides an ‘impressive service’ to its clients, which include both national NHS organisations and independent sector clients. In 2010 the team represented NHS Cambridgeshire in the highly publicised inquest into the unlawful killings of David Gray and Iris Edwards by Dr Daniel Ubani, and was involved in the pilot GP commissioning pathfinder. Within Bridget Archibald’s team, Dawn Brathwaite provides ‘reliable and sound advice’.
Pinsent Masons continues to lead in the field of commercial healthcare, and in 2010 acted on a joint venture between The Christie NHS Foundation Trust and a global private healthcare company. Michael Boyd’s team also advised Serco in connection with its bid for the franchise of the Hinchingbrooke Health Care NHS Trust. Other clients include Active Assistance, the Department of Health, and Walsall Hospitals NHS Trust. Barry Francis and Joanne Ellis are recommended.
Addleshaw Goddard LLP’s transactional practice continues to act on PFI/PPP health projects, and in 2010 advised on transformational schemes and possible judicial reviews within the sector. Highlights included advising a group of public sector partners on the redevelopment of the former Royal Eye Hospital, Manchester. Head of infrastructure, projects and energy Michael O’Connor leads the team with healthcare head Sandra Humphrey.
CMS Cameron McKenna LLP predominantly acts for private sector clients, advising on M&A, commercial and regulatory matters. Clients have included Sovereign Capital, Ramsay Healthcare and Nuffield Health. Jason Zemmel and David Day head the practice.
Eversheds LLP provides ‘high-quality legal advice’ on public, private and life sciences healthcare, with a large client base including Four Seasons Healthcare, NHS Supply Chain and The Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust. Work highlights included advising on the Mid Staffordshire Inquiry, and representing NHS Hull in a judicial review challenge. Bill Gilliam leads a team that includes Richard Moulton and Shirley Wright.
Field Fisher Waterhouse LLP’s ‘strong healthcare regulatory industry knowledge’ aids it in advising regulatory organisations such as the Nursing and Midwifery Council, NHS Direct and the Care Quality Commission. It advised the General Medical Council on matters including the Mid Staffordshire Inquiry, and its merger with the Postgraduate Medical Education and Training Board. Within Matthew Lohn’s team, Judith Chrystie ‘shines’, and Mary Timms and Sarah Ellson are also recommended.
Leigh Day & Co’s ‘enthusiastic’ and ‘outstanding’ practice represents individuals and community groups in a broad spectrum of complex cases. It represented 97 families in the Mid Staffordshire Inquiry, and advised national and local groups and individuals on proposed changes to NHS services. Richard Stein and Rosa Curling are ‘innovative, creative and impressive solicitors’, and practice head Frances Swaine and Alison Millar are ‘completely committed to their clients and leave no stone unturned’.
Morgan Cole advises PCTs, regulatory bodies and central government departments. Work highlights included acting for NHS London in a high-profile project to provide learning and development services to all GP commissioning consortia in London, and acting for the Department of Health in drafting the 2010/11 standard NHS contracts for acute hospital and ambulance services. Eve Piffaretti leads the practice.
RadcliffesLeBrasseur’s broad healthcare practice advises 175 public sector and 80 private sector healthcare bodies, and all three Medical Defence Organisations. Recent work includes advising on GP partnership mergers, acting in nursing home inquests and advising on the new NHS mental health contract. Clients include Care UK, Cygnet Healthcare and Castlebeck Care. Andrew Parsons leads the team.
Wragge & Co LLP’s ‘technically excellent’ team provides ‘very practical, workable solutions in PPP’, and has ‘sector knowledge that surpasses many other firms’. In 2010 the team advised the East of England Strategic Health Authority on the franchise of Hinchingbrooke Health Care NHS Trust, and the competitive disposal of the Bedford and Luton Mental Health and Social Care Partnership Trust. Other clients include Spire Healthcare and Healthcare Intelligence Limited. Practice head Bleddyn Rees and David Hamlett are recommended.
Bates Wells & Braithwaite London LLP is noted for its ‘specialist knowledge in regulatory, health and social care law issues’, and acts for clients including Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust, the Royal College of Nursing, and Asthma UK. Practice head Stuart Marchant is ‘professional, intelligent and knowledgeable’.
Dominic Cook’s team at Bird & Bird advises a number of London NHS Foundation trusts, and in 2010 acted on behalf of GSTS Pathology and Guy’s St Thomas’s NHS Foundation Trust in their joint venture with Serco. The team also advised King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust on hospital management and administration outsourcing matters.
Charles Russell LLP’s team deals with both contentious and non-contentious healthcare matters, acting for individuals and organisations. Work highlights included challenging the legality of six PCT decisions, and advising Sainsbury’s on its growing pharmacy chain. Practice head David Reissner is a ‘leader in this field and is very good at interpreting the regulations’.
DLA Piper UK LLP acts for public and private sector clients, and in 2010 advised the NHS Connecting for Health programme on the structuring and negotiation of the NHS Pathways, and King’s College Hospital on a joint venture. Other clients include the Department of Health and Pfizer. Jim Lavery leads the practice from Birmingham.
Warren Taylor’s team at Nabarro LLP handles corporate and projects matters for clients in the public and private sectors. In 2010 the group advised HCA International on its joint venture with The Christie NHS Trust, and Watford Health Campus on the delivery of a new 600-bed hospital.
Pierce Glynn Solicitors is a ‘leader in the UK in the area of improving access to healthcare’, with ‘encyclopaedic knowledge of NHS legislation’. The practice acted in a number of test cases in 2010, including a case involving access to care for migrants, which resulted in a change of policy by the Department of Health. Adam Hundt is ‘exceptional’, and a ‘careful, thoughtful, modest and astonishingly able solicitor’.
Stephenson Harwood is particularly strong in projects work. In 2010 it advised on the $3.7bn sale of Mumbai pharmaceutical company Primal Healthcare to Abbott Healthcare. Life sciences expert Andrew Edge recently joined from Ashurst LLP.
Taylor Wessing LLP’s healthcare-related expertise extends to infrastructure transactions and the manufacture and supply of medical equipment. Work highlights included advising London International Hospital on £60m funding from a Middle Eastern investment fund. Hamid Yunis’ group recently recruited Stephen Tanish from Addleshaw Goddard LLP.
Trowers & Hamlins LLP’s ‘highly responsive’ team is praised for its ‘unparalleled knowledge of the local authority marketplace’. In 2010 the team handled M&A transactions and judicial reviews for public and private clients such as The Cambian Group and the National Society for Epilepsy. Lynn Aglionby and Rosemary Hart lead the team.
Barlow Lyde & Gilbert LLP’s practice advised Western Sussex Hospital NHS Trust on the high-profile dismissal of a doctor. It gained several new NHS trust clients in 2010.
Berwin Leighton Paisner LLP’s commercial healthcare practice in 2010 advised on a number of fundraising projects, and advised Barchester Healthcare on a joint venture arrangement. Jim Buchanan is the practice head.
Bircham Dyson Bell LLP advises clients on outsourcing of NHS and private hospital services, PPP/PFI projects, and construction matters.
Yogi Amin’s team at Irwin Mitchell LLP advises individuals and charities on cases involving access to life-saving medication, treatment decisions, and home care packages.
Lockharts advises a range of healthcare professionals, service providers and professional bodies. In 2010 it advised on various NHS joint ventures and LIFT projects, and acted in Crouch v South Birmingham PCT. Andrew Lockhart-Mirams has ‘great depth of knowledge’.
Osborne Clarke advises clients such as Priory Healthcare Group, and St Monica Trust. Former practice head Kevin Gibbs recently joined Beachcroft.
Matthew Newing’s ‘absolutely excellent’ team at Speechly Bircham LLP in 2010 advised on a number of LIFT schemes and debt restructuring matters. Clients include Caring Homes.
Ben Willis’ team at Veale Wasbrough Vizards recently advised on the development of the £3.8m Kingswood primary care centre.
Weightmans LLP provides a service that is ‘unquestionably and consistently of the highest standards’. The team advises clinicians and NHS trusts on a range of issues, including inquests and judicial reviews. Kiran Bhogal’s ‘expertise, experience and knowledge in the medical field is unparalleled’.