Rich Eldridge

Rich focuses on working with businesses in the healthcare sector, especially owners of care homes.

Rich is an established lawyer. Rich is ranked as a Leading Individual by Legal 500 and is in their Hall of Fame. Legal 500 has included quotes referring to Rich as “very commercially minded with a friendly manner” and someone who “is a strong, commercially minded partner providing clear direction and advice”.

Chambers and Partners includes Rich as a ranked lawyer. They say Rich is described by a client as “a very creative thinker and someone who constantly thinks of commercial solutions”.

Rich has appeared on Panorama. He has been quoted in The Telegraph, The Times and The Independent.

Rich graduated from the University of Southampton with a First Class degree in law. Rich spent six years working in the City where he trained and practiced with a Magic Circle firm. Rich then joined a leading South Coast law firm where he made partner when aged just 31.

Experience

• Advising on a care group’s terms of business in light of advice from the Competition & Markets Authority
• Advising a national care group on regulations, laws and a litigation strategy
• Advising on a £34,000,000 financing for a care group comprising three bilateral facilities
• Advising on a £7,000,000 financing for a specialist care provider
• Advising a care provider on a dispute regarding payments alleged to be due to a building contractor

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