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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 LLP is a multi-award-winning commercial law firm. Ranked in the top tier for healthcare by both Chambers & Partners and The Legal 500, winners of the HealthInvestor Transactional Awards in 2020, 2021, 2022 and the HealthInvestor Private Legal Advisor in 2022, our specialist health, social care and life sciences team of more than 200 lawyers passionately and proactively advise 350+ health and social care companies, developers, funders, investors and their portfolio companies on the full range of operational and transactional legal and regulatory matters across all of the major sub-markets of independent health and social care.
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.
Catalyst Interiors
It has been scientifically proven that our surroundings prompt emotional triggers in our minds. So, when our interior designers take an experiential approach to shaping a space, they strive to understand these triggers and use this knowledge to create a more meaningful experience for the end-user. In considering the different sensory, emotional, intellectual and social objectives of a project, as interior designers, we are able to design spaces that encourage users to feel or act in specific ways. We’re into our 3rd decade of bringing a specialist focus and energy into the interior design & fit out of healthcare facilities , and our work with care homes & retirement villages is recognised by our customers and peers alike, and demonstrated by our multi award winning team whose energy, passion & drive continues to fuel our continued growth. We make care home interiors come to life, make their end users feel happy to live in warm, secure attractive environments that meet & indeed surpass their needs. By doing so we keep our customers happy and help them ensure faster occupancy, better retention and happy staff who love to work within the environments that we craft.
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.
Honeywell Building Technologies
Honeywell Building Technologies (HBT) is transforming the way every building operates to help improve the quality of life. We are a leading building controls company with operations in more than 75 countries supported by a global channel partner network. Commercial building owners and operators use our hardware, software and analytics to help create safe, efficient and productive facilities. Our solutions and services are used in more than 10 million buildings worldwide. Honeywell is a Fortune 100 technology company that delivers industry specific solutions that include aerospace products and services; control technologies for buildings and industry; and performance materials globally. Our technologies help aircraft, buildings, manufacturing plants, supply chains, and workers become more connected to make our world smarter, safer, and more sustainable. For more news and information on Honeywell, please visit https://www.honeywell.com/gb/en
Irwin Mitchell
We are proud to work with clients who are creating retirement homes and communities, and in doing so, are changing lives for the better. At Irwin Mitchell our later living and care lawyers work alongside our private wealth later life planning experts – which means we not only understand your business, but also your customers. We believe this combination gives us a unique insight into the challenges, as well as the rewards of building a successful retirement living business. Share your ambitions with us and we’ll help you make them happen within this fast growing market and rapidly changing legal landscape.
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
MGAC 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, portfolio management, project controls, cost management, 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 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.
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: We provide a strong local presence with an excellent understanding of the local market, backed up by our innovative technologies and global resources.
• Technology, Science & Industry
• Energy
• Financial Services
• Infrastructure
• Real Estate.
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.
The Human Tech Agency
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
Whiteley Consulting Ltd
Whiteley Consulting is considered sector leading in helping those who wish to achieve a leading and valuable retirement living strategy and in executing it. We are here for those: - The UK RC sector is experiencing much change and Whiteley Consulting is at the leading edge (in its areas) of helping you make sense of it and create sustainable value for both investors and customers. We also have much experience of transactions, troubleshooting under-performing operations and value enhancement in the sector. We can also assist Funds in reaching a successful sector strategy, screen or find potential investments and review existing ones.
• who truly wish to understand all aspects of the event fee/DMF business model and its role in building a whole and compelling proposition
• looking to understand the impact of different tenure choices
• seeking bank or equity funding search or support
• those requiring investor level modelling appraisals and presentations
• seeking a steer regarding the structures, accounting/tax, reporting, leases, and the overall UK environment associated with the sector.