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Our Mutualisation team has a strong powerful track record
of advising clients in the public sector on innovative new
structures, involving one or a
combination of more elements of employee ownership,
co-ownership, social enterprise and mutuality. In addition to this, we can offer you
the benefits of a fully commercial law firm with all the strengths
in those areas you need to ensure that your enterprise flourishes,
including expertise in Corporate,
Tax, Employment, Pensions
and Real Estate.
We have advised on pioneering social
enterprise projects within the NHS, such as the spin out of the
community health services business of NHS Hull into a new social
enterprise, City Health Care Partnership CIC, and the first ever
project of this kind at Central Surrey Health Limited, proud to be
the first Big Society Award winners. Building on this, we have supported the
Coalition Government's move to mainstream this exciting concept
into wider government, advising on mutualisation within local
authorities and central government. Outside of the public sector,
we also have market-leading experience advising on employee
ownership and mutual structures within many other industry sectors,
with clients ranging from financial institutions to architecture
and engineering, and we are proud to advise the employee trust
owned John Lewis Partnership plc.
We have a genuine long standing interest in
the expansion of mutual structures and employee ownership models,
shown by our extensive involvement in lobbying, seminars,
workshops, support for pathfinder projects and our role, for over
20 years, as legal adviser to the Employee Ownership
Association.
"We did not impose quality measures –
rather Field Fisher Waterhouse worked to their
internally set high standards and exceeded expectations. Outcomes
were delivered to Field Fisher Waterhouse quality measures and the
project timelines, enabling the project to complete on time in line
with NHS requirements". Head of Integrated
Governance, New healthcare social
enterprise.
Field Fisher Waterhouse partner appointed Government
adviser on employee ownership
Norman Lamb, the newly appointed Business Minister, recently
announced that Field Fisher
Waterhouse partner Graeme
Nuttall has been appointed the Government’s independent adviser
on employee ownership.
The appointment follows the Deputy
Prime Minister’s announcement in January of a new Government drive
to introduce the concept of employee ownership into the mainstream
British economy.
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