Commercial Healthcare Solicitors

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Expert legal advice for SMEs in the health and social care sector

Health and social care is one of the most tightly regulated sectors. As an SME, navigating these legal intricacies requires specialist expertise and experience.

At Scott Bailey, our commercial healthcare solicitors combine extensive sector-specific experience and knowledge with comprehensive corporate and commercial expertise. With a proven track record advising a wide range of health and social care businesses, you can trust our team to support your business’s growth and protect your interests.

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Commercial healthcare legal services

Supporting health and social care businesses

Why choose our Corporate Healthcare Solicitors

Commercial health and social care experts

Our specialist healthcare solicitors combine corporate and commercial expertise with extensive experience advising SMEs across the healthcare sector. We understand how healthcare businesses operate, the pressures they face, and the complex regulatory environment they must navigate. This insight allows us to deliver practical, strategic advice that protects our clients’ interests and helps their businesses thrive.

Here when you need us

At Scott Bailey, we understand that every healthcare business has different priorities. Whether you need a long-term legal partner to support your growth or a trusted firm to handle one-off matters cost-effectively, our specialist commercial healthcare solicitors are here to help.

Commercially minded legal advice for healthcare businesses

SMEs often need to balance their ambitions with the budget they have available, and healthcare businesses are no exception. Our commercial healthcare experts provide commercially minded legal advice that helps SMEs achieve their goals. We offer strategic, practical guidance and always focus on identifying the most cost-effective solutions.

Direct access to experienced commercial healthcare solicitors

Making legal decisions about your business can feel daunting, particularly in the highly regulated healthcare sector. Unlike larger law firms, we ensure our clients always have direct access to our experienced commercial healthcare solicitors, giving them the confidence to make important decisions about their business. Whether it is a quick chat when you think you may have an issue, or a comprehensive consultation to discuss a complex matter, our team are always there when you need them.

Exceptional Value. Complete Transparency.

At Scott Bailey, we pride ourselves on delivering exceptional value and complete transparency for businesses in the healthcare sector. Wherever possible, we offer fixed fee legal services, giving clients clarity on legal costs from the outset. Where fixed fees are not possible, we will always communicate costs openly throughout the process, ensuring there are no nasty surprises.

Meet Our Commercial Healthcare Lawyers

Ben Ironmonger

Ben is a partner at Scott Bailey LLP, heading up our company and commercial, and marine departments.

Ben advises SME business clients on corporate and commercial matters, including business sales and purchases, reorganisations, company structure arrangements, intellectual property, and commercial contracts. Ben has considerable experience in acting for private companies, property developers, employees, agents, banks and financial institutions, entrepreneurs and investors, across an array of industries.  

As well as traditional business sectors, Ben also regularly advises healthcare business clients including care home owners, pharmacists, veterinary and dental practices, and GP partnerships.

Having worked in business for a number of years prior to training as a solicitor, and having been a commercial litigator prior to making the move to corporate and commercial, Ben has developed a unique, down-to-earth and commercial approach, focusing on the key business issues and helping clients get deals done in a cost-effective manner.

Emily Drew, Trainee Solicitor at Scott Bailey in Lymington

Emily Drew

Emily qualified as a Solicitor in September 2024 after completing a 2 year training contract with Scott Bailey. During her training contract, Emily spent time with each legal department, and now works alongside Ben Ironmonger in the Company and Commercial and Marine departments, advising businesses and their owners on a range of corporate and commercial matters. Emily also acts for a number of individuals and businesses in marine-related matters and park home transactions.

Emily has always lived locally and studied her Law degree at the University of Winchester, she then went on to study a Masters in Law and Business Management along with completing her Legal Practice Course at the University of Law, achieving a distinction overall.

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Philip Salt

Phil heads up our commercial property department and is a vital member of the wider property team. He has wide experience dealing with all aspects of commercial, agricultural and residential property, ranging from buying or selling a business or farm to letting properties to tenants or setting up a new enterprise. He advises clients involved in both the granting and taking of commercial leases.

Phil deals with transactions for both landowners and developers, advising on the full range of issues relating to land acquisition and development, including such matters as option agreements, conditional contracts, overage agreements, joint venture agreements and infrastructure agreements.

Very often there are loose ends on property transactions and Phil takes a practical and commercial approach to solving these problems.

Emily Drew, Commercial Healthcare Solicitor at Scott Bailey, explaining a document

Commercial Healthcare Solicitors in Hampshire

With offices in Lymington and Lyndhurst, Scott Bailey’s commercial healthcare solicitors are ideally placed to support healthcare clients across Hampshire, Dorset, Wiltshire, and the South Coast. Our team has a proven track record of advising a wide variety of health and social care businesses, from dental practices in the New Forest and GP surgeries in Southampton to pharmacies in Portsmouth, care providers in Bournemouth, and veterinary practices in Winchester.

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like yours every day.

We would like to hear from you. Please send us a message by filling out our form or contact us using the details below.

Phone: 01590 676933

Fax: 01590 679663

Email: [email protected]

Scott Bailey LLP, 63 High Street, Lymington, Hampshire, SO41 9ZT

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Corporate & Commercial Law

Corporate & Commercial Law

Commercial Property

Commercial Property

Litigation & Dispute Resolution

Litigation & Dispute Resolution

Employment Law

Employment Law

Intellectual Property (IP)

Intellectual Property (IP)

Commercial Healthcare

Commercial Healthcare

Regulatory & Compliance

Regulatory & Compliance

Insolvency

Insolvency