Focus on our Healthcare team at Clarke Willmott
Our dedicated teams work hard to look after clients, whatever their legal needs. Our broad expertise across the firm means that anyone of our lawyers has access to a network of experts who will ensure you are receiving the best legal care at the right time.
In this series, we’re showcasing the individuals who make up our talented team. We’re speaking with our legal experts to learn more about their areas of expertise, what they enjoy most about their work, and how they work together to provide exceptional legal care to our clients.
We spoke to partner Kim Klahn, to find out more about the healthcare team at Clarke Willmott and the work they do to support clients.
How does your team support healthcare clients?
Our commercial healthcare solicitors offer extensive experience to our clients across the healthcare sector, including care homes, GP practices, dental practices, nurseries, veterinary practices, and pharmacies. The multi-disciplinary team brings in experts from across the firm, from teams such as corporate and commercial, employment, litigation, banking and finance, commercial property, intellectual property and data protection.
From buying and selling a care home to navigating regulatory compliance, contract procurement or securing finance for acquisitions, we provide our healthcare sector clients with proactive, commercially focused and cost-effective legal advice.
“Our expertise across the healthcare sector allow us to work with our clients to navigate the complexities of the healthcare landscape. We pride ourselves on getting a real understanding of the businesses of our healthcare clients to deliver exceptional service.”
Who makes up the talented healthcare sector team?
The healthcare sector is led by Kim Klahn and covers all of our regional offices.
Kim, based in our Birmingham office, is listed as a recommended lawyer in the Legal 500’s 2025 guide. She supports clients in the healthcare sector with a range of corporate matters from mergers and acquisitions of care homes to general corporate law for SMEs. Kim’s extensive knowledge of the care home sector has helped her to complete on many care home deals including the recent sale of two North Wales nursing homes.
Rich Eldridge was recognised in the 2025 Legal 500’s Hall of Fame, an exclusive list highlighting lawyers “who are at the pinnacle of the profession”. Rich has been described by his clients as “a healthcare sector expert” and is referred to as “simply thorough, commercial and approachable” in the Chambers and Partners Guide.
Kirill Bingham, partner and head of our Taunton office, helps healthcare organisations with management buy-outs and buy-ins, shareholder and partnership agreements and acquisitions and disposals. He has over 15 years of experience in handling deal completions in the healthcare sector (care homes, veterinary, dental, domiciliary care and pharmacy).
Manchester-based partner, Matthew Dootson, specialises in multi-site partnership structures, mergers and acquisitions, corporate structuring and governance. He has extensive experience supporting healthcare clients including advising on the implementation of a large-scale multi-tier GP partnership and advising on the acquisitions, disposals and mergers of various UK-based GP surgeries.
Also based in Manchester is partner Louise Rogers, assisting the team’s healthcare clients with employment matters, including contract negotiations, recruitment, workplace policy implementation and the drafting of contracts and other documentation. Her clients have described her as being “the epitome of professionalism” and having “first-class industry knowledge”.
Bridget Sanger, senior associate in our crime and regulatory team, has particular expertise representing care homes in respect of safeguarding, CQC and inquest matters. She was named as a recommended lawyer in the Legal 500’s 2025 guide and is also ranked in the 2025 Chambers guide.
Bethan Evans is a partner in the corporate team and is a banking and finance lawyer in our Cardiff office, advising on all elements of corporate and commercial funding matters, encompassing facility, security and intercreditor documents and specialising in healthcare financing, including development funding. She advises on a variety of corporate financing and non-vanilla lending arrangements and her clients are bank and challenger lenders and borrowers across the care sector, as well as various other sectors.
What are some of the recent deals you have been involved in?
Our team has recently been involved in a number of care home deals across the UK including:
- Acting for Asker Healthcare Group on the acquisition of midlands-based Hugo Technology Ltd.
- Advising on a series of care home deals for Linc Cymru Housing Association (Linc) in South Wales.
- Acted on the sale of Hartford Care Group, to a joint venture between Foundation Partners and Deer Capital, in a deal worth more than £100m.
- Acting for the buyer, Healthcare Management Trust (HMT), the team advised on the acquisition of St Quentin Residential Home Limited, which operates three care homes.
What separates your team from the rest?
“Our healthcare lawyers possess a unique blend of deep industry knowledge and practical experience. We understand the complexities of healthcare regulations and are adept at navigating them to provide our clients with clear and actionable advice, ensuring our clients are always one step ahead.”
What service can healthcare clients expect to receive when working with Clarke Willmott?
“Clients can expect to receive a personalised, bespoke service where their needs are met with meticulous care, expert knowledge and practical support.
“No matter the challenge, we ensure that experts from all across the business are instructed to achieve the best possible outcome for our clients”.
How can potential clients get in touch with the team?
If you would like to find out more about how our dedicated healthcare solicitors can support your business, please contact a member of our team directly by calling 0800 652 8025 or getting in touch online.
Clarke Willmott has offices in Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, London, Manchester, Southampton and Taunton.
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