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Care Home Services
Over recent years, we have built considerable expertise in working with care home owners offering legal advice on a broad range of issues.
The residential care home sector is undergoing a rapid transformation, prompted by vibrant consolidation in care providers and against the backdrop of an ageing population. Growth and change in the care home market place have resulted in tangible new business opportunities for operators. Some industry commentators say that the 2002 Care Standards Act has led to smaller providers being driven out of the market, to be replaced by corporate providers operating larger homes of up to 200 beds. A buoyant property market has also seen some care providers leaving the care market to realise the value of their property assets. As the debate on a Fair Rate for Care rumbles on, the pressure for improved state funding for residential care homes remains.
At Buller Jeffries, we understand the business environment in which you are operating and are able to work as an extension to your management team, offering commercial legal advice to assist in running your business effectively and profitably, as the following examples of how we have helped other care homes show:
- either by means of asset purchase or share transfer
- mortgage/lending
- including legal grooming prior to marketing the business
- sale and leaseback
- lease renewals
- all landlord and tenant matters
- helping you to get the most appropriate business structure
- inheritance tax planning
- raising finance
- planning issues
- tax implications
- contracts and policies
- disputes and tribunals
- compliance with regulation
- accident claims
- professional negligence
- property litigation
- advising you or the residents in your care
Our clients
Our care home clients are predominantly owner-operators with either a single home or operators of a small number of sites. Our work in this area brings us into regular contact with other professionals involved in the care homes sector, for example surveyors, accountants, Midlands’ based branches of the National Care Homes Association and the Commission for Social Care Institutions (CSCI). Testimonials from some of our recent clients are shown below:
‘Clive Vernon’s team at Buller Jeffries were on hand to advise us throughout the sale of our care homes, helping us to achieve the highest possible return on our investment. Their advice was of an extremely high standard and I would not hesitate to recommend them to other operators who are considering disposing of their business.’
‘I received excellent advice from Buller Jeffries – they clearly knew how to structure the transaction to make it commercially sound for my business and I will certainly consult them again on future acquisitions.’
Initially, please contact either Clive Vernon or Roger Williams to discuss your requirements.
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