Drawing on sub-specialisms in public sector and health infrastructure, social and long-term care as well as life sciences and private healthcare, Addleshaw Goddard’s health department provides a full-service offering to its clients. With expertise in complex commercial transactional, competition, and disputes work for the NHS, Michael O’Connor is leading the team together with Stephanie Townley who is specialised in infrastructure and public sector matters. The group has a strong contentious offering handling pharmaceutical drug product liability cases and large-scale construction disputes. Philip Dupres handles contentious matters for a range of NHS trusts and Foundation Trusts in respect of ongoing disputes on their PFI schemes.
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‘A really deep understanding of NHS structures and of the construction issues which arise with PFI and other financing projects. A fantastic work ethic and drive to win cases for their NHS clients.’
‘Thomas Hurst is both a work horse and a war horse. He is outstanding at putting together and managing teams in the most massive of healthcare cases. He also gets outstanding results.'
'Sarah Wilson is absolutely on top of things, an exceptionally bright and switched-on lawyer. Sarah sees all the angles.’
Key clients
- University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust
- Guys and St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust
- Step Springfield Village Limited (a joint venture between Kajima Partnerships and Sir Robert McAlpine Capital Ventures
- Fulcrum Infrastructure Group Limited (FIG) and Fulcrum Infrastructure Management Limited
- Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- GlaxoSmithKline
- GB Partnerships Limited
- Cambridge & Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust
- Assura Medical
- Bupa Care Homes Mercia Healthcare
- Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust and Northumbria Healthcare Facilities Management Limited
- Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust and Northumbria Healthcare Facilities Management Limited
- Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Serco Limited
- Liverpool and Sefton Health Partnerships Limited
- Thermo Fisher Scientific
- Clinigen Group Plc
- North Tees and Hartlepool Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
- Bradford NHS Foundation Trust
- Royal Free London NHS Trust
- Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
- West Sussex Estates Partnership Limited
- Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Atlas BFW Management Limited
- The Borough Council of Worthing and West Sussex Estates Partnerships
- Recipharm AB
- CatSci
- Royal London
- St Helens & Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
Work highlights
- Advising County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust in relation to the construction of a new Shotley Bridge Hospital.
- Advising St Helens & Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (STHK) on its acquisition of Southport and Ormskirk Hospital NHS Trust (SOHT), where STHK will subsume SOHT, and the trusts shall become a single NHS Trust.
- Acting for Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust and Northumbria Healthcare Facilities Management Limited to settle their multiparty TCC claim against Lendlease Construction.
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Michael O'Connor, Louise Dobson, Andrew Pettinger, Stephanie Townley