Specialist lawyers Ridouts have joined top 60 UK law firm HCR Law’s healthcare team.
The Ridouts team act for care homes, GP practices, children’s homes, dental practices, domiciliary and home care agencies, supported and independent living services and both private and NHS hospitals. Their services include advice on safeguarding, commissioning contracts, handling regulator prosecutions, and more.
Nationally renowned for their regulatory expertise, Paul Ridout and his team will complement HCR’s successful national healthcare operation. HCR has a strong reputation for advising a wide range of clients in the healthcare sector including providers of adult social care and children’s services, and healthcare professionals including dentists.
Paul Ridout said: “We’re delighted to join HCR Law’s established healthcare team. It’s clear to me that our values of client care and our shared focus on supporting the sector are a good match, not only for Ridouts and HCR Law but for healthcare providers who are looking to work with a different type of law firm.”
Rebecca Leask, Head of Healthcare at HCR said: “We’re very much looking forward to welcoming Paul and the team, and being able to bolster our offering to existing clients of both HCR and Ridouts. Healthcare providers need access to the full range of legal services, from specialist experts who have a deep understanding of their unique needs. This coming together, enables HCR to provide such a service.”
Paul Ridout and the team are based in London and support clients nationwide.
HCR Law has more than 800 staff and partners based at offices in Birmingham, Cambridge, Cardiff, Central England, Cheltenham, Hereford, London, Thames Valley, Worcester and the Wye Valley, providing a complete spectrum of legal services to both business and private clients regionally and nationwide.
The firm has global reach via its network of independent law firms, LawExchange International. It also has a number of highly successful teams specialising in individual sectors, including Agriculture, Environment and Estates, Charities and Not-for-profit, Defence and Security, Education, Financial Services, Healthcare, Local Government and Public Sector, Private Wealth, Sports, Media and Entertainment and Technology.
Award-winning firm HCR Law provides a complete spectrum of City-quality legal services to business and private clients across the South and West Midlands, Thames Valley and Wye Valley corridors, the southwest of England and in Wales.
The firm has grown through several mergers, both locally and with specialists, all answering client demand. It has more than 800 staff and partners operating out of offices in Birmingham, Cambridge, Cardiff, Central England, Cheltenham, Hereford, London, Thames Valley, Worcester and the Wye Valley, and a turnover of c£65m.
The firm has specialist expertise in Agriculture, Environment and Estates, Charities and Not-for-profit, Defence and Security, Education, Financial Services, Healthcare, Local Government and Public Sector, Private Wealth, Sports, Media and Entertainment and Technology.
HCR Law’s work in all aspects of law is nationally and internationally recognised. Clients’ comments about the quality of its work has led to the firm being listed in Tier 1 of the prestigious Legal 500 and Chamber and Partners directories of the major law firms in England and Wales.
For more details, visit www.hcrlaw.com