Professional, Public and Regulatory Law
Good regulation involves understanding the problem first and ensuring the regulatory response is proportionate to the level of risk, while maintaining the confidence of the public and stakeholders.
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ServicesOur market-leading Professional, Public and Regulatory law team is committed to supporting our public sector, regulator and regulated clients. We provide strategic advice, creating the space for clients to achieve their objectives while minimising the risk of legal challenge. However, where challenge is unavoidable, we have some of the strongest dispute resolution experts in the sector. Our approach is flexible, focusing on what success looks like for our clients to ensure that a tailored response to match their particular needs is delivered on time and at the right price. Our clients span the professional regulatory, financial, health and social care, sport, health product regulation, health and safety, housing, media and property sectors.
OUR TRACK RECORD
- Representing public sector, regulator and regulated clients in inspections, investigations, and inquiries. These include tribunals of inquiry, statutory inquiries, regulators’ investigations and inspections arising from protected disclosures, fitness to practise proceedings, inquests, integrity proceedings, fitness & probity matters as well as health & safety prosecutions.
- Providing advisory services including anticipating regulatory developments, planning for change, raising awareness with policy makers, completing regulatory cases and transactions and repairing any damaged relationships between the regulator and the regulated party.
HOW WE CAN HELP YOU
- Professional Regulation, Inspections and Investigations, Health and Safety Investigations
- Regulatory Prosecutions, Statutory Oral Hearings and Fitness to Practise Inquiries
- High Court & Supreme Court Appeals and Judicial Review as well as Emergency Injunctions and Suspension Applications
- Representation at Inquests, Integrity & Probity proceedings including unrivalled experience in anti-doping rule violations
- Advising on and responding to Data Protection, Freedom of Information and Cyber Risk issues
- Drafting Statutory Rules, Regulations, Guidelines and Codes of Conduct
- Addressing Protected Disclosures and Whistleblowing issues
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Client Testimonials
What our clients say
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”Gary Rice has a "long bank of experience" in the area of professional discipline, according to market commentators. He acts for regulatory statutory bodies in the medical, pharmaceutical and veterinarian sphere.
Legal 500, EMEA 2023
Financial Services
Financial Services
Our Financial Services practice comprises a team of dedicated lawyers who cover the full spectrum of dispute resolution, regulatory, commercial and other matters, with genuine sector specialism.
Health and Social Care
Health and Social Care
Our market leading multi-disciplinary health and social care team provide advice tailored to address the varied and complex challenges within the sector.
Industry Specialisms
Industry Specialisms
We combine our in-depth sector knowledge with astute commercial awareness and global reach. We provide our clients with full service legal claims, transactional, commercial, risk and regulatory and governance advisory capability.
Insurance
Insurance
Recognised as the pre-eminent advisor to the global insurance sector, we hold a unique position as long-term trusted legal advisers for the market.
Real Estate
Real Estate
We understand that your property assets sit at the heart of your business. Whether you're in the private or public sector, central or local government, a developer, investor, or fund, in the UK or around the world, our approach sets you up for success at every point of the real estate development cycle, from conception to sale.
Technology
Technology
As long-standing and trusted advisers in the technology sector, we deliver pragmatic and innovative solutions that empower you to make informed decisions about how best to maximise your success.
Who we are
Why choose DAC Beachcroft?
We’re a broad-based commercial firm serving a wide range of sectors with a strong heritage in insurance,
health and real estate. We combine excellent legal skills and cutting-edge delivery expertise to design
solutions that fit the needs of our clients – often involving clever uses of technology.
