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With a growing sector, ARCO recognises the contribution of key advisors and suppliers and our Partners range across a broad range of specialisms. The shape of regulation and legislation is set to change considerably over the next 10 years and this will also increase the need for specific advisory capability and capacity. ARCO Partners are our mid-tier commercial partnership and are called on to advise the Board through the quarterly Advisory Council.
Click on the logos below for contact details of our current Partners.
Bevan Brittan
Bevan Brittan advises private, public and third sector organisations in the healthcare market including property developers, funders, independent health and social care providers and NHS organisations. We have been consistently ranked by the Chambers UK Guide as a leading firm in healthcare.
BNP Paribas Real Estate UK
BNP Paribas Real Estate is formed of six business lines covering the entire property lifecycle. Property Development, Transaction, Consulting, Valuation, Property Management and Investment Management. Our Alternative Capital Markets team have over 30 years’ experience providing consultancy/ agency across the spectrum of healthcare real-estate sectors including: Care Homes; Retirement Living; Assisted Living; Supported living; Mental health; GP Surgeries; Hospitals. We provide a range of services from transactional, consultancy, valuation, viability, planning, building consultancy and research. We also work closely with our Strutt&Parker residential colleagues in London and around the UK.
Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP
Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner are recognised by the leading international legal directories, Chambers & Partners and Legal 500, as the only leading adviser to the real estate sector across all disciplines, we pride ourselves on our ability to provide comprehensive, multidisciplinary advice. We deliver the full spectrum of services, ranging from large-scale, complex property acquisitions and joint ventures, development, construction and procurement advice, financing, to ongoing management work and disputes. Our offering combines expertise and first-class technical ability across specialist areas and we believe it is the depth and breadth of our market-leading sector experience that differentiates us from our competitors.
Carterwood
Carterwood is a multi-award-winning consultancy dedicated to social care. Our team of specialists provide independent, expert analysis that helps operators, developers, and investors to improve decision-making within the elderly care home and retirement living sectors. As well as market-leading advisory services, Carterwood offer powerful digital platforms for assessing care markets, called Carterwood Analytics. Carterwood Analytics | Retirement Living gives retirement living operators, developers, and investors access to a proprietary database, providing essential data needed to assess the viability of new retirement living schemes quicker, improve sales velocity, and maximise sale/resale rates. We combine sector-specialism with unparalleled data quality and a commitment to innovation, to help our clients make better decisions. Carterwood acts for 80% of retirement living operators and 85% of the top 20 care home group operators in the UK, and our commercially-focused team is one of the largest dedicated to health & social care.
CBRE Limited
Our team of senior living specialists provide a fully integrated service that draws on extensive market insight. We specialise in funding and development consultancy, land acquisition, planning, valuation, project management and research. Combined with CBRE’s multi-sector expertise and connections within its global network, our understanding of the market is deeper than that of any other advisory firm.
Gowling WLG
Gowling WLG is an international law firm with more than 1,400 legal professionals and a presence in Canada, the UK, Europe, the Middle East, Asia and South America. Whether you’re an operator, a contractor, a developer, a funder or an investor in the senior living sector, we can help you. We’re proud to have some of the sector’s best technical lawyers operating in the UK, including some of the leading residential living lawyers and healthcare regulatory experts. We help to create operating structures and delivery models and advise on emerging sector, legal and regulatory trends and requirements, helping our clients to structure and execute their business plans.
Greenwood Campbell
We call ourselves the Human Tech Agency because our purpose is to improve people's lives.
We use empathy, research and data to understand our clients and the motivations and needs of their users. Then we use the latest technology to create meaningful and engaging digital experiences.
We build websites, create Metaverses, design voice skills, develop chatbots, make apps and transform organisations.
Our work helps older people find the right care, inspires people to get fit and healthy, aves lives at sea, brings fans closer to the game they love, ensures people find the right doctor, connects isolated people with volunteers and revolutionises the way parents adopt children.
We are Greenwood Campbell, the Human Tech Agency
JLL
At JLL our aim is to shape the future of Real Estate for a better world. We help our clients achieve their ambitions in the healthcare sector by providing market-leading research and consultancy advice on demographics and sector performance. We assist clients with access to funding through providing Red Book valuations and others to enter the sector through raising finance and acquiring developments or sites. We are also the market leader when it comes to the sale of operational businesses in the Retirement Community sector.
Knight Frank
At Knight Frank we have a market leading seniors housing team providing a full range of services across the sector. We provide capital markets, valuation and advisory services aimed at seniors housing developers, funders and operators specialising in integrated retirement communities, retirement housing and assisted living schemes.
MGAC | RLF
MGAC | RLF is a global boutique consultancy dedicated to managing and representing our clients’ best interests. Our success is rooted in hiring exceptional people who are driven to do challenging work with the unique blend of experience, integrity, creativity, and commitment that separates us from our competitors. We provide best-in-class services that include project management, programme management, development management, project controls, cost management, bank + fund monitoring, schedule management, health + safety, technology solutions, FF&E procurement, and relocation management. We have the ability to integrate these services to provide a completely customised and tailored solution to our clients’ project or programme specific needs. Our sector specialists working on Retirement Living (including Integrated Retirement Communities) draw on up-to-date market knowledge and real-time data, giving us the ability to hit the ground running and contribute regularly with insights into the current and emerging issues your project may face. With ten offices located throughout the United Kingdom, United States, and Canada, we pride ourselves on being large enough to offer global services, but pragmatic in our approach so we can provide the level of personal care and attention-to-detail that you and your project deserve.
Pinsent Masons LLP
Pinsent Masons is a full-service international law firm. We respond to the pressures and opportunities facing businesses globally with legal excellence and innovation.
With 25 offices on four continents, wherever your commercial interests take you, we have the footprint and expertise to provide support. We recognise that giving a first class service goes beyond just legal excellence. A deep understanding of local cultural and commercial issues, and an innovative approach, underpins all of our advice. We understand the key political, economic, commercial and regulatory issues, helping to minimise risk and maximise opportunities.
We have market-leading expertise in five key global sectors:
• Technology, Science & Industry
• Energy
• Financial Services
• Infrastructure
• Real Estate.
We provide a strong local presence with an excellent understanding of the local market, backed up by our innovative technologies and global resources.
PRP
PRP is an interdisciplinary architectural practice, offering a full range of design and building services. For over fifty-five years, PRP has been designing high quality buildings that enrich the lives of users and their communities. Whether designing homes for older people, regenerating inner-city estates or masterplanning new neighbourhoods, our ethos is always the same – intelligent, responsive and sustainable solutions, delivered with professionalism and total integrity. Led by Jenny Buterchi, PRP has a dedicated team of over 40 designers who operate entirely within the older persons housing and care sector. As the UK market leaders in the field of later living design, we are passionate about designing homes where residents feel secure and proud to live. We have completed over 11,500 independent living units and care home beds in the UK since 1998. Our projects range from small specialist dementia care homes to large integrated retirement communities and intergenerational masterplans in urban and rural settings. Our drive for design quality complements our expertise in this sector, resulting in award-winning, truly innovative buildings which are efficient to run and make a real difference to the people who live within them. We achieve this by understanding our clients, their residents and the local context. We have a deep understanding of the issues and solutions particular to later living and the nuances which differ from other housing. We can create barrier free designs without diluting the architecture, delight or high standard of finishes.
Savills
Savills Healthcare and Senior Living provide a comprehensive range of services in the rapidly expanding senior living and healthcare sectors. Our team of multi-disciplinary experts specialise in transaction advisory, structuring, equity and debt financing, development, consultancy, valuation and research, across the UK and Europe. The assets and portfolios we have advised on range in size from £1 million to over £1.5 billion, with a broad cross-section of clients that includes institutional investors, private equity, annuity funds, banks and non-bank lenders, developers, operators, landowners, house builders, charities and NHS Trusts. We combine our sector-specialism with UK and Europe wide coverage, bringing in local market expertise from our colleagues across the vast Savills office network.
Urban Edge Architecture
Urban Edge Architecture are an established practice providing architectural and landscape services. Specialists in both later living and urban regeneration alongside, we have spent the last 10 years designing and delivering Integrated Retirement Communities for various operators across the UK. Our landscape and architectural teams work collaboratively to develop considered solutions which integrate seamlessly into the urban environment.
Whiteley Consulting Ltd
Whiteley Consulting is considered sector leading in helping those who wish to achieve the most value out of retirement living and increase their chances of both formulating a successful strategy and executing it. We are here for those who truly wish to understand all aspects of the event fee/DMF business model; are seeking bank or equity funding; modelling appraisals; or help regarding the structures, accounting, reporting, leases, legislative environment and tax associated with the sector. We have much experience of transactions, trouble shooting under-performing operations and value enhancement in the sector. We can assist Funds in reaching a successful sector strategy, screen or find potential investments and review existing ones.
Wippet
Wippet is an online purchasing platform that gives IRC operators control – over their suppliers, their buyers and their spend. It’s buying made simple. Wippet has unlimited capacity to load an operators preferred suppliers’ catalogues of products on to the platform, so everything can be bought from one place with one login, one basket and one invoice, no matter from how many suppliers the order is placed. And all your existing contract terms can be automatically applied to your transactions, too – credit limits and terms, even your specially negotiated prices will only be visible to your employees. What’s more, with Wippet you can have a monthly buying report of all your transactions, so your purchasing information is at your fingertips. The back-office efficiency alone of Wippet can release many precious hours that could be better spent – a real challenge in the post Covid world. And what’s more, as Wippet grows, your organisation will have access to anonymised data from across the sector to either give you comfort you are paying a fair market price or identify opportunities to buy better. Put more simply benchmarking at your fingertips to make your buying work better for you. In short, Wippet is a whole suite of tools to help IRC operators drive up efficiency and drive down costs. Wippet was launched in October 2021 and is the brainchild of Matt Oxley, who previously held senior management positions for 5 large healthcare operators. Incorporated in January 2021, Matt and his two co-founders secured the significant investment needed to build a state-of-the-art buying platform and at the same time sold Wippet to Clipper Plc. – the distributor of the government’s free-issue PPE. Matt, the CEO and his two co-founders now lead this fast-growing company.