Welcome to the ARCO Suppliers Directory. Please find below a list of specialist suppliers to the Integrated Retirement Community sector.
Trowers & Hamlins LLP
Trowers & Hamlins is a leading practice in health and social care, advising investors, operators, local authorities, the NHS and developers on buying or selling, establishing, building and managing care services of many kinds. We are a market leader in both the housing and public sectors giving them a broad understanding of all forms of care provision from multiple client viewpoints. Trowers is a firm embedded in the fabric of the seniors housing market, and has been for the best part of a decade. We provide legal services that underpin sustainable and liveable retirement communities, providing commercial advice geared towards tackling the challenges of today and tomorrow.
Legal Services
Bevan Brittan
Bevan Brittan LLP is a multi-award-winning commercial law firm. Ranked in the top tier for healthcare by both Chambers and 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.
Advisory, Healthcare Specialist, Legal Services, Real Estate, Regulatory Risk Management
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, contractor, developer, 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 legal and regulatory sector trends and requirements, helping our clients to structure and execute their business plans.
Advisory, Consultancy, Legal Services, Real Estate, Regulatory Risk Management
Jones Day
Jones Day is a law firm with a full service real estate offering in the UK as well as in Germany, France, Spain and Italy. In addition to direct and indirect real estate and real estate finance matters, we can advise on the myriad other deal structuring and due diligence matters that may arise. Our team has a particular specialism in senior living and integrated retirement community transactions, acting on behalf of investors, funders, landowners and developer/operators, including advising on the UK's largest single asset acquisition in the sector and diverse structuring possibilities for assets in this asset class.
Legal Services, Planning, Real Estate, Regulatory Risk Management
Mills & Reeve
Mills & Reeve is one of the top three UK law firms in the health and care sector by many measures, not least by the amount of work we do across every part of the sector and the scale of our health and care expertise. We have exceptional experience acting for every sort of organisation ranging from the Department of Health and hundreds of NHS and other public sector bodies, many of the regulators (including the key regulator, the Care Quality Commission) through to some of the UK’s largest independent sector health and care providers. Our multi-disciplinary team offer market leading expertise in all key areas of the Later Living market including M & A and corporate work, real estate investment, commercial development, planning, tax, affordable housing, construction, energy (including renewables), environmental, regulatory, health and safety, employment and real estate litigation.
Construction, Legal Services, Planning, Real Estate, Retirement Communities
Acuity Law
Acuity Law is a dynamic and forward-thinking commercial law firm, with an entrepreneurial spirit, operating throughout the UK. Acuity offers a partner-led service and has a strong track record in providing advice, transactional services and business support to organisations operating in the housing and healthcare sectors, including retirement community and care home operators.
Legal Services
Blake Morgan LLP
Blake Morgan has a strong reputation in the private and public health and care sectors including later living. Our specialist legal advisers act for a wide range of clients, including retirement community and care home operators, developers, funders, investors, housing associations and not-for-profit and act for many of the largest providers of health and social care. We deploy a multi-disciplinary approach including real estate, planning, construction, banking and finance, tax, regulatory compliance, corporate structuring, employment, dispute resolution and commercial contracts. This breadth of expertise allows us to deliver commercially focused advice at every stage of our clients’ projects. Our in-depth understanding of the legal and regulatory landscape enables us to offer tailored market-led advice supporting our clients across the integrated retirement community sector, navigating the challenges of developing, operating and managing high-quality retirement communities. We use our unique blend of technical expertise, experience and commercialism to deliver the best results possible for our clients. Blake Morgan is a leading full-service UK law firm with offices in London, Thames Valley, Cardiff, Southampton and Manchester and are proud to support ARCO and its members in shaping the future of integrated retiring living.
Advisory, Legal Services
Browne Jacobson LLP
Our experienced team of care home lawyers has an in-depth understanding of the issues that providers are facing and the residential care regulations that these operators must follow. We work with our clients collaboratively and take time to understand and respect their requirements in this difficult climate. In addition, we draw on a wide range of experience gained from acting for many public, private and third-sector health and social care clients, including regulators and over 150 local authorities across England and Wales. Our dedicated healthcare practice works across the NHS and independent healthcare sector. We believe we are unique in being able to offer heavyweight corporate, commercial and banking practices (which include healthcare specialists) combined with a wealth of expertise in the public sector in all aspects of health law.
Advisory, Healthcare Specialist, Legal Services, Property Services, Real Estate
Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP
Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner are recognised by the leading international legal directories, Chambers and 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.
Construction, Legal Services, Property Services, Real Estate
Clifford Chance
At Clifford Chance, our clients turn to us for their real estate requirements globally including large scale, strategic transactions because of our integrated sector-based approach to real estate and our extensive international network. We advise on the entire property ‘life-cycle’ from the initial acquisition, development, leasing, joint venturing and financing through to the final exit, as well as tax structuring, corporate outsourcing, planning, environment and litigation. As real estate specialists, we know the demographic pressures on the residential sector and we are delighted to be supporting the exciting, and much-needed, growth of Integrated Retirement Communities as an asset class with a lot to offer us all in later life. At Clifford Chance, our In Residence Group are actively engaging in conversations around how to deliver the best framework for delivery of IRCS from a developer, consumer and investor perspective and, in this regard, we look forward to supporting ARCO and its members with our market-leading expertise.
Construction, Legal Services, Planning, Real Estate, Retirement Communities
Clyde & Co LLP
Our real estate practice provides specialist legal advice related to the whole property life-cycle from the initial acquisition, development, joint venturing and tax structuring, financing, operational agreements and leasing through to the end sale of the asset or interest. We advise on all permutations of residential development projects, having acted on “all sides of the fence” across the residential sector - from developers, housebuilders, land promoters, joint venture entities, landowners, local authorities, operators, lenders and investors. We are well-equipped to provide the full range of legal services in relation to the various legal and commercial issues faced daily for Integrated Retirement Communities We adopt a multi-disciplinary approach – our practice is closely aligned with the firm’s planning, environmental, tax, corporate and commercial, employment, finance, infrastructure and construction teams, assisting our clients at every stage of the project. Our fully integrated service allows us to work with our clients to address any challenging issues which arise.
Advisory, Construction, Financial Services, Healthcare Specialist, Legal Services
CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang
We have been advising our clients to invest in, finance, develop, regulate and manage effectively in this growing market for over 20 years. Our multi-disciplinary team advise on structuring and acquisition, planning, financing, development, and the ongoing asset management of retirement communities.
Advisory, Healthcare Specialist, Legal Services, Real Estate, Retirement Communities
Eversheds Sutherland
As a global top 10 law practice, Eversheds Sutherland provides legal advice and solutions to an international client base which includes some of the world’s largest multinationals. Our teams of lawyers around the world operate seamlessly to deliver the legal know-how and strategic alignment that clients need from their advisors to help further their business interests. Clients describe us as creative and well versed in cutting edge legal work – we listen well in order to understand how and where we can be most effective and add the greatest value. We shape our advice to the unique circumstances and challenges of each project, and ensure the right people are in the right places to offer insight and certainty – from the day-to-day to the most complex, multijurisdictional matters. What unites us is our purpose, our values and our commitment to service excellence through a solution-oriented approach. We know our clients’ businesses, the industries and markets they operate in, and we know that great relationships yield the best outcomes.
Legal Services, Planning, Real Estate
Forsters LLP
Forsters is a leading London law firm which delivers exceptional legal advice to clients in the real estate world. Forsters advise a number of clients in the Later Living sector in relation to development projects, acquisitions, disposals and management of real estate assets as well as financing these assets and developments. Forsters are live to the nuances and particularities of the Later Living sector and the commercial considerations for those operating in this sphere, and are therefore able to provide pragmatic and common sense advice to clients.
Advisory, Legal Services, Planning, Real Estate
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.
Construction, Legal Services, Planning, Real Estate, Regulatory Risk Management
Lester Aldridge
Lester Aldridge offers more than just legal services; LA is a trusted legal advisor to a number of the key players in the seniors housing industry and has advised on thousands of seniors housing schemes over the last 20 years. There is a fundamental overlap between the seniors housing and healthcare sectors, and LA is a market leader in its expertise in housing with care and health and social care, particularly regulation. LA provides advice across the whole health and social care sectors. We also offer a “cradle to grave” service to seniors housing developers and promoters, advising on land promotion through to plot sales. Our clients are at the heart of everything we do. We are recognised for our innovative, practical approach, providing solutions tailored to meet the individual circumstances and the needs of our clients. As one client put it recently, LA is “a business focussed on delivery and collaboration.” We are recognised by The Law Society for our high-quality service. The Lexcel accreditation is the legal quality mark for client care, compliance and practice management, which we have held since 2007.
Advisory, Legal Services
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.
Legal Services, Property Services, Real Estate, Retirement Communities
Shoosmiths
The Shoosmiths Later Living Team comprises legal advisers with specialist knowledge of the market across all relevant disciplines, including core real estate, planning, construction, litigation, tax, environment and corporate matters, which allows us to pull together and deliver focussed, market-led advice on demand, whatever our client’s project. Our Later Living team has the specialist experience, capacity and knowledge of this market to tailor our advice for each of our developer, funder and operator clients. However, most importantly for us, is that we strive to forge strong relationships with our clients so that we can truly collaborate as a team in successfully delivering projects, time and time again, across the Later Living spectrum – be it retirement villages, traditional care homes, extra care or sheltered housing.
Advisory, Construction, Legal Services, Planning, Real Estate
TLT LLP
TLT is an award-winning law firm with offices in London, Bristol, Manchester, Glasgow & Edinburgh. TLT provides a full range of legal services to businesses, organisations and the public sector involved in housing for older people and the care and support sector. We advise operators on social care issues, regulation, health and safety and employment as well as dealing with the sale, purchase and building of new housing with care. We understand the legal and regulatory challenges facing operators in this sector and the importance of the full integration of the supply of care and support alongside good quality housing.
Advisory, Legal Services, Regulatory Risk Management