Hamberley Care Homes

In connection with:

• a £100m care home sale and leaseback deal with Rynda Healthcare. The transaction involved the sale and leaseback of five care home assets in which Hamberley’s operating company, Hamberley Care Homes, leased back and operates three of its care homes under 35-year leaseback agreements: Elstow Manor in Bedford, Verwood House in Dorset and Upton Manor in Poole. Hamberley Care Homes will also lease two further care homes that are being developed in Eastleigh and Enfield.
• a £100m sale and leaseback of 6 care homes to Octopus Real Estate. The properties focus on caring for people with neurological conditions such as motor neurone disease, and offer specialist facilities including physiotherapy and medical consulting rooms, therapy gyms, lounges, dining rooms and self-contained step-down apartments.
  
  

Impact Healthcare REIT

• The acquisition of the Eastleigh Care Group
• The acquisition of two new homes at a value of £14m to be operated by Belmont Healthcare
• Advising in connection with the extension of the group's facilities with Clydesdale Bank
  
  

EMIS Group plc, a UK leader in connected healthcare software and systems, on its recommended £1.243bn takeover offer by Bordeaux UK Holdings II Limited, an affiliate of Optum Health Solutions (UK) Limited and a wholly owned subsidiary of UnitedHealth Group Incorporated.

Abingworth – a life sciences investment firm, on its sale to Carlyle, a global investment firm with deep industry expertise.

CGE Partners on its investment in Datapharm, a leading provider of regulatory-driven medicines information and software solutions to the pharmaceutical industry.

Ancala Partners LLP on the acquisition of Ludlow Street Healthcare by Holmleigh Care Group, a care organisation in Ancala Partners LLP's portfolio.  Ludlow Street Healthcare is a provider of specialist care, education and treatment services for individuals with complex mental health needs, and comprises 16 residential care homes, three mental health hospitals and a further education college across England and Wales.

The senior management team of Elysium, a leading UK-based provider of healthcare services, in relation to the proposed acquisition of Elysium by Ramsay Health Care from funds managed by BC Partners.  Ramsay Health Care is a global health care operator with more than 460 sites across Australia, the United Kingdom, Europe, and Asia and providing health care to over eight-million patients per year through a network of hospitals, day surgeries, specialist clinics and primary care units.

Kester Capital and other selling shareholders on the sale of the Frontier Medical Group to Agilitas Private Equity.  The Frontier Medical Group is a leading medical device manufacturer that focuses on skin and wound care. Founded in 1997 through collaboration with NHS clinicians from the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff, the group has over 25 years’ experience designing and manufacturing clinically proven, high-quality and cost-effective products that are used in the prevention and treatment of pressure ulcers. Frontier supplies both acute and homecare markets in the UK and internationally.

Swedish-listed medtech company Addlife as it expands in Europe with the acquisition of the Healthcare 21 Group (HC21).  HC21 is a leading independent Life Science distributor with operations in Ireland and the UK with sales in FY20 of approximately EUR 171 million and around 450 employees.

Bridgepoint Development Capital on its partnership with Prescient Healthcare Group, a global product strategy advisory firm serving the pharmaceutical and biotech industries.  Prescient works with many of the leading multinational pharmaceutical companies, as well as a growing number of emerging biotech and specialty pharmaceutical organisations.

Impact Healthcare REIT plc

In connection with:

• Advising in connection with a private placement of up to £75m.
• Advising in connection with a new £50m long term facility with National Westminster Bank PLC.
• The Fund's second forward funding with new operator Carlton Hall Limited for the development of a new care home at Norwich, plus the associated acquisition of a new high quality existing care home at Lowestoft;
• The sale of Heeley Bank, a 67-bed care home in Sheffield;
• The acquisition of two care homes in Northern Ireland with operator, Electus Healthcare, using local counsel input;
• The acquisition of a care home in Kilmarnock, Scotland, with operator Holmes Care Group using local counsel input;
• Investment via a loan to the Holmes Care Group into a portfolio of 12 care homes which were owned and operated by Kingdom Homes (using local counsel input), such loan to be converted into an option for Impact to acquire the 12 care homes subject to regulatory approvals being received. This innovative transaction took Impact's investment with Holmes to 1,129 beds in Scotland; and
• Investment via a loan via the same transaction structure into two care homes to be operated by Welford Healthcare into Mansfield.
  
  

Aedifica - the acquisition of a brand-new purpose-built care home in Congleton, Cheshire, for approximately £13m comprising 80 en-suite bedrooms for seniors requiring continuous care.

Kester Capital LLP and its portfolio company, Frontier Medical, on the sale of its Infection Prevention business in a carve-out to Vernacare, backed by H.I.G Capital.  The exited businesses are industry-leaders in the Infection Prevention market providing an extensive range of sharps and clinical waste disposal solutions. Sharpsafe®, a core brand of the Infection Prevention business, was the world’s first purpose-designed plastic sharps container.

The management team of LGC in relation to its acquisition by a consortium led by Cinven and Astorg, from KKR and management.  LGC provides a comprehensive range of measurement tools, proficiency testing schemes, supply chain assurance standards and specialty genomics reagents underpinned by leading analytical and measurement science capabilities. Its scientific tools and solutions form an essential part of its customers’ quality assurance procedures and enable organisations to develop and commercialise new scientific products and advance research. The company serves customers across a number of end markets, including healthcare.

Assura PLC, the UK's leading Healthcare Real Estate Investment Trust, on its £185 million placing by way of an accelerated bookbuild.  A FTSE 250 listed real estate investment trust, Assura builds, invests in and manages GP surgery, primary care and community buildings, so that the NHS has the places it needs to deliver more services, tests and treatments in the community.  The transaction will allow Assura to continue to support the NHS by developing new primary care facilities and fund its record acquisition pipeline. £2.5 million of the proceeds are being donated to a charity to support the communities within 15 miles of healthcare centres owned by Assura.

Impact Healthcare REIT plc

In connection with:

• A £100 million placing. The Fund used the placing proceeds to repay its revolving credit facilities and to continue to pursue investment opportunities in UK healthcare real estate assets, in particular residential care homes.
• The Fund's first forward funding with an existing operator, for a new 94 bed care home in Hartlepool;
• the purchase of 7 new care homes properties by a variety of asset and corporate acquisitions;
• completing Impact's fourth financing with a value of £50m;
• acquiring a further 14 homes across Scotland and Northern Ireland using local counsel input;
• bespoke advice in light of the Covid-19 pandemic and protecting Impact's position under its leases.
• the review of their leasehold portfolio from an ESG perspective. This has led to a new market -leading form of lease in the sector, with extensive environmental and sustainability objectives.
  
  

Hamberley Care Homes

In connection with:

• the acquisition of a number of care homes at Mapledurham, Eastleigh, Dorking, Cambridge, and Broadoaks;
• the forward funding of development of care homes at Ampthill and Hailsham; and
• the financing of care homes at Brampton, Bristol, Broadoaks and Edwalton.
  
  

Ancala - its acquisition of a majority stake in Holmleigh Care Homes for its European Infrastructure Fund II. Holmleigh provide residential care, supported living and domiciliary care services to adults with a varied range of disabilities and challenges across 31 homes in Gloucestershire, Wiltshire, Swindon and Worcestershire. Holmleigh has provided Ancala Partners with an entry into the new and evolving market of supported living and we have acted on an innovative and new structure over circa 30 assets with Falcon Housing Association. This bolt-on completed in November 2020.

Patron - its acquisition of various care homes including Pickering House Dorking, a development site at Eastleigh, and the sale of a care homes at Adderbury.

Aedifica - its acquisition of a brand-new purpose-built care home in Congleton, Cheshire, for approximately £13m comprising 80 en-suite bedrooms for seniors requiring continuous care. The care home will be operated by Handsale.

Assura PLC - its £185 million placing by way of an accelerated bookbuild.