Elliot Mather is please to support:

Our Business Sectors

Healthcare
Charities
Farming

For further information contact:

Chesterfield (01246 231 288)
Paul Hollyer

Mansfield (01623 655 666)
Andrew Johnston

Healthcare Businesses

When buying or selling a business, it pays to have focused commercial insight into every aspect of the transaction. At Elliot Mather, we have a particularly strong involvement in the healthcare sector, regularly acting for buyers, sellers and bank funders of nursing home properties and business and offering accessible guidance on the regulations these businesses must adhere to. Our client base in this area is varied and far reaching, and we often act for national banks and clients overseas.

Our instructions range from single homes to groups of properties, comprising of up to 30 separate residential care homes. We have also carried out instructions concerning multi-million pound new build developments, in particular on behalf of banks in overseeing contractual and collateral warranty arrangements.

We also benefit from experience of a growing trend in this sector, namely the leasing of capital assets in order to fund the future growth of the business.
Enjoying a good working relationship with many of the leading funders, brokers and agents who are active in this business sector, we can smooth the path to sale or purchase for any client as well as deliver incisive, commercially-minded guidance and support.

Meeting standards

This sector is heavily regulated by the Commission for Social Care Inspectorate (CSCI) under the provisions of the Care Standards Act 2000. We offer informed advice and guidance on the myriad of employment and other issues that might arise from regulation, both during operations and in the course of a sale or purchase, such as the transfer of employees, business warranties and the claiming of capital allowances.

How we can help

Elliot Mather brings together a comprehensive range of skills and experience to deliver a seamless service to clients investing in, or those funding investment in the healthcare sector. Combining a team drawn from across the business department, we offer expert, specialist assistance in:

Buying and selling of healthcare businesses, properties and companies
Construction law and managing a new build
Bank security
Employment law

Charities

The Lottery Fund has been a great shot-in-the-arm for trusts and other not-for-profit organisations, providing the funding to transform their work and to increase the good they can do. At the end of 2004, the Charities Commission reported that their registrants had received almost £35million that year.

Those organisations which have realised the benefits of new funding sources may benefit further by becoming a registered charity. Donors often want to know that their money is going into an organisation with a governing structure and the formal recognition of a government body.

The process or registering is long and somewhat involved, and a specialist area of the law. However, the Charities Commission oversees the proper management of all charity groups, and acts in their interests, so it is a process that usually pays off.

How we can help

We can help guide such organisations who seek to become registered with the Charity Commission, including advising upon your charity’s structure and the governing documents it will need to produce in order to become registered with the Charities Commission. We will also negotiate with the Commission concerning the application of charitable aims, and offer you all the practical help and support you’ll need during the application process.

Charities Services

Consultation
Management and administration of registration
Company structure documentation
Employment contracts

Farming

Agriculture in the UK is an industry in constant flux. Evolving legislation meets with the pressures brought by competition and a changing market place to present farmers with many tough choices about their work.

How we can help

Elliot Mather, having grown for over a century in Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire, has a long history of working with farmers and landowners on a variety of legal issues. We act for a number of prominent farmers in the region and can advise with understanding and insight on a range of transactions and situations, including: