Shipla Khanum

Shipla has more than 10 years’ experience advising clients on a broad range of corporate and commercial matters, with particular expertise in the healthcare sector (including dental, pharmacy, care home, optometry and aesthetics businesses).

She advises on the sale and acquisition of businesses and companies, corporate restructuring, refinance arrangements, share incentive schemes, shareholder agreements and partnership agreements and company law advice.

Alongside her corporate expertise, Shipla also advises on the NHS regulatory framework and healthcare-specific regulatory requirements, including registrations and approvals with bodies such as the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) and the Care Quality Commission (CQC).

She has particular experience assisting retirement sellers who are looking to realise the value of a business they have built over many years; she also regularly acts for first-time buyers, guiding them through legal and commercial issues to help them make informed decisions at every stage of the transaction.

Examples of Shipla’s work include:

• Advising on a complex corporate restructuring project to facilitate equity incentives to key employees of a recruitment business, and the release of equity to the founder in a tax-efficient structure.
• Advising a UK-based construction management company on its corporate restructuring and the sale and purchase of shares held by a minority shareholder.
• Advising a pharmacy chain on the disposal of 13 branches to various buyers.
• Advising a seller on the sale of their NHS and private dental practice based in London in a deal worth £2.8 million.
• Advising a retirement seller on the sale of a dental practice based in Greater Manchester in a deal worth £1.8 million.
• Drafting terms and conditions and shareholder agreements for practitioners in the aesthetic industry and wellness sector.
• Advising healthcare operators based in Harley Street.