Capsticks LLP

Capsticks LLP is a leading national law firm specialising in health, housing, and social care, with extensive expertise in professional regulatory and emergency services sectors. The firm provides a full-service offering across its markets and is recognised for delivering practical, market-driven solutions.

The firm acts on high-value and politically sensitive matters in the health, social care, and housing sectors. Notable work includes advising Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust on the lease of Headley Court for use as a Covid-19 rehabilitation facility, and representing London Ambulance Service NHS Trust at the inquest into the death of Kevin Clarke, the longest jury inquest held post-Covid. Its housing team represents over 200 registered providers nationwide, advising on acquisitions, possession proceedings, and properties supporting vulnerable residents.

Capsticks’ healthcare clients include NHS Resolution, NHS England/Improvement, NHS Employers, Barts Health NHS Trust, Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust, Frimley Health NHS Trust, Community Health Partnerships, Imperial Healthcare NHS Trust, Sandwell & West Birmingham NHS Trust, North Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust, MDDUS, and Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust.

The firm also represents professional regulators such as the Solicitors Regulation Authority, Social Work England, the General Dental Council, the Nursing and Midwifery Council, and the Teaching Regulation Agency, as well as housing associations including L&Q, Aster, Sovereign, Orbit, and Metropolitan Thames Valley. Its emergency services clients include the Metropolitan Police and Yorkshire Ambulance Service.

The firm’s HR advisory services offer consultancy support across employee relations, disciplinary issues, investigations, absence management, and organisational change.

Capsticks’ practice areas include clinical law, corporate and commercial, employment and pensions, housing, litigation, real estate, and regulatory advice. Its clinical law team provides both advisory and defence services in clinical negligence claims, serious complaints, incidents, large-scale public inquiries, Court of Protection and mental capacity matters, and judicial reviews of major service reconfigurations. The corporate and commercial division supports NHS and private healthcare providers, housing associations, and social care providers in transactions, M&A, joint ventures, corporate finance, PFI, and capital procurement projects. The employment and pensions team advises NHS workforce leaders, housing providers, GP Federations, and emergency services on HR, employment law, and tribunal defence. The housing practice handles full-service advice for housing associations, private developments, regeneration projects, leasehold management, anti-social behaviour and disrepair disputes, security charging, and treasury matters.

The litigation team manages commercial and property disputes for NHS Trusts, large housing associations, emergency services organisations, local authorities, and regulatory bodies. The real estate division acts for public and private healthcare clients and housing providers on major property transactions, leases, asset management, estate matters, joint venture redevelopments, hospital developments, NHS surplus land sales, and urban regeneration schemes. The regulatory team manages professional discipline cases, fitness-to-practise matters, and High Court appeals, representing eight of the ten statutory health and social care regulators alongside other professional regulators.

Languages
English

Staffing Figures
59 UK partners
276 other UK fee-earners