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With a growing sector, ARCO recognises the contribution of key advisors and suppliers and our Partners range across a broad range of specialisms. The shape of regulation and legislation is set to change considerably over the next 10 years and this will also increase the need for specific advisory capability and capacity. ARCO Partners are our mid-tier commercial partnership and are called on to advise the Board through the quarterly Advisory Council.
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Bevan Brittan
Bevan Brittan LLP is a multi-award-winning commercial law firm. Ranked in the top tier for healthcare by both Chambers and Partners and The Legal 500, winners of the HealthInvestor Transactional Awards in 2020, 2021, 2022 and the HealthInvestor Private Legal Advisor in 2022, our specialist health, social care and life sciences team of more than 200 lawyers passionately and proactively advise 350+ health and social care companies, developers, funders, investors and their portfolio companies on the full range of operational and transactional legal and regulatory matters across all of the major sub-markets of independent health and social care.
Catalyst Interiors
Catalyst Interiors is revolutionising the world of interior design with our ground-breaking approach to Retirement Community Environments! Imagine walking into a space that's visually captivating, emotionally uplifting, and specifically tailored to enhance the well-being of your residents. We masterfully blend art, science, and technology to create spaces that foster a sense of familiarity, safety, and comfort for those living within our facilities. By leveraging the latest research on neuroplasticity and sensory stimulation, Catalyst Interiors crafts immersive experiences that stimulate memory and cognitive function. Our eco-friendly, innovative designs incorporate nature-inspired elements and carefully chosen color palettes to evoke positive emotions and reduce stress. With a keen understanding of the unique needs of Elderly Residents, we create spaces that promote independence, dignity, and social interaction. Catalyst Interiors is not just transforming spaces, we are transforming lives. Step into a world where design meets compassion, and witness the remarkable power of a thoughtfully crafted environment tailored for Retirement Living.
CBRE Limited
Our team of senior living specialists provide a fully integrated service that draws on extensive market insight. We specialise in funding and development consultancy, land acquisition, planning, valuation, project management and research. Combined with CBRE’s multi-sector expertise and connections within its global network, our understanding of the market is deeper than that of any other advisory firm.
Gowling WLG
Gowling WLG is an international law firm with more than 1,400 legal professionals and a presence in Canada, the UK, Europe, the Middle East, Asia and South America. Whether you’re an operator, contractor, developer, funder or an investor in the senior living sector, we can help you. We’re proud to have some of the sector’s best technical lawyers operating in the UK, including some of the leading residential living lawyers and healthcare regulatory experts. We help to create operating structures and delivery models, and advise on emerging legal and regulatory sector trends and requirements, helping our clients to structure and execute their business plans.
Hansgrohe Limited
Since 1901, Hansgrohe has been developing taps, showers and kitchen mixers, under two brands, to take everyday moments and make them extraordinary with innovative design, quality and service. For more than 25 years, our brand AXOR conceives and manufactures iconic objects for luxurious bathrooms and kitchens; developed in collaboration with world-renowned designers and architects. Hansgrohe is our premium brand for showers, shower systems, bathroom and kitchen mixers. Shaped by an sense of form, pioneering spirit, and German engineering skills, products are created that are convincing with their excellent design.
Irwin Mitchell
We are proud to work with clients who are creating retirement homes and communities, and in doing so, are changing lives for the better. At Irwin Mitchell our later living and care lawyers work alongside our private wealth later life planning experts – which means we not only understand your business, but also your customers. We believe this combination gives us a unique insight into the challenges, as well as the rewards of building a successful retirement living business.
JLL
At JLL our aim is to shape the future of Real Estate for a better world. We help our clients achieve their ambitions in the healthcare sector by providing market-leading research and consultancy advice on demographics and sector performance. We assist clients with access to funding through providing Red Book valuations and others to enter the sector through raising finance and acquiring developments or sites. We are also the market leader when it comes to the sale of operational businesses in the Retirement Community sector.
Jones Day
Jones Day is a law firm with a full service real estate offering in the UK as well as in Germany, France, Spain and Italy. In addition to direct and indirect real estate and real estate finance matters, we can advise on the myriad other deal structuring and due diligence matters that may arise. Our team has a particular specialism in senior living and integrated retirement community transactions, acting on behalf of investors, funders, landowners and developer/operators, including advising on the UK's largest single asset acquisition in the sector and diverse structuring possibilities for assets in this asset class.
Knight Frank
Knight Frank offer expertise in all aspects of seniors housing investment, specialising in the disposal, acquisition, and valuation of integrated retirement communities and retirement housing. Their services are tailored to the needs of developers, funders and operators in the sector. They have been actively involved in many of the market's key transactions and valuation mandates, giving them a unique edge and establishing them as the sector's leading property advisor. Their service lines - Funding, Land, Valuations and Consultancy - cover all aspects of Seniors Housing in the UK. Complementing their advisory services is a robust research function, providing market-leading data and analysis that empowers developers, operators, and funders to make informed, high-level strategic decisions. They take pride in their collaborative approach, drawing on the extensive global resources of Knight Frank. The Senior Living team works closely with other specialists within Knight Frank, including those in Healthcare, ESG, Residential Capital Markets, and Purpose Built Student Accommodation. This synergy ensures that their clients receive the most comprehensive and strategic guidance possible.
Mills & Reeve
Mills & Reeve is one of the top three UK law firms in the health and care sector by many measures, not least by the amount of work we do across every part of the sector and the scale of our health and care expertise. We have exceptional experience acting for every sort of organisation ranging from the Department of Health and hundreds of NHS and other public sector bodies, many of the regulators (including the key regulator, the Care Quality Commission) through to some of the UK’s largest independent sector health and care providers. Our multi-disciplinary team offer market leading expertise in all key areas of the Later Living market including M & A and corporate work, real estate investment, commercial development, planning, tax, affordable housing, construction, energy (including renewables), environmental, regulatory, health and safety, employment and real estate litigation.
PRP
PRP is an interdisciplinary architectural practice offering a full range of design and building services. Since 1963, we’ve designed buildings that enrich the lives of users and their communities through intelligent, responsive, and sustainable solutions. Led by Jenny Buterchi, PRP has a team of over 40 designers who operate within the older persons housing and care sector. As the UK market leaders in the field of later living design, we are passionate about designing homes where residents feel secure and proud to live, enriching their lives, health and wellbeing. We have completed over 12,000 independent living units and care home beds in the UK. Our projects range from small specialist dementia care homes to large integrated retirement communities and intergenerational masterplans. Our drive for design quality complements our expertise in this sector, resulting in award-winning buildings which are efficient to run and make a real difference to its users. We achieve this by understanding our clients, their residents and the local context. We have a deep understanding of the issues and solutions particular to later living and the nuances which differ from other housing.
Savills
Savills Healthcare and Senior Living provide a comprehensive range of services in the rapidly expanding senior living and healthcare sectors. Our team of multi-disciplinary experts specialise in transaction advisory, structuring, equity and debt financing, development, consultancy, valuation and research, across the UK and Europe. The assets and portfolios we have advised on range in size from £1 million to over £1.5 billion, with a broad cross-section of clients that includes institutional investors, private equity, annuity funds, banks and non-bank lenders, developers, operators, landowners, house builders, charities and NHS Trusts. We combine our sector-specialism with UK and Europe wide coverage, bringing in local market expertise from our colleagues across the vast Savills office network.
Whiteley Consulting Ltd
With now 26 customers in the sector, Whiteley Consulting is considered sector leading in helping those who wish to achieve a leading and valuable retirement living strategy and in executing it. We are here for those developer/operators and/or investors: - The UK RC sector is experiencing much change and Whiteley Consulting is at the leading edge (in its areas) of helping you make sense of it; including considering the latest thinking in the mature overseas markets.
• who truly wish to understand all aspects of the event fee/DMF business model and its role in building a valuable and compelling proposition
• seek guidance in moving from the headline proposition and into the detailed operating implications
• understanding a possible valuation of your proposition
• shareholders who wish to assure their investment and understand their options
• looking to understand the impact of different tenure choices
• seeking bank or equity funding search or support
• those requiring investor level modelling appraisals and presentations
• seeking a steer regarding the structures, accounting/tax, reporting, leases, and the overall UK environment associated with the sector.