Jonathan Hill

Jonathan is an associate solicitor in the Corporate team at Shakespeare Martineau, supporting clients across a range of sectors, with a particular sector expertise in healthcare focused on dental practice acquisitions and disposals.

He supports clients with a broad range of corporate work including mergers, acquisitions and disposals, management buy-ins and buy-outs, corporate restructuring (including hive-ups and share buy-backs), corporate governance, advice on corporate decision making, corporate investments and other strategic projects.

Jonathan gives pragmatic and commercial advice on all aspects of healthcare acquisitions and disposals including structuring the deal, drafting and negotiating appropriate terms, advising on funding, and navigating regulatory elements including applications for registration with the Care Quality Commission and the appropriate methods of transferring NHS contracts between service providers.

Clients include individual dentists buying and selling practices and dental corporate groups looking to expand their portfolios through acquisition.

Recent examples include:

– working with a number of the largest dental groups in the UK supporting their acquisitions of multiple
practices in different locations;

– the sale of a large mixed-practice dental group in a deal worth £20 million; and

– supporting numerous first time buyers purchasing dental practices, many requiring the transfer of an NHS
dental contract.