She has been practising since 2015 and advises clients on a range of matters, including commercial contracts (both NHS standard forms and bespoke agreements), framework (and call-off) arrangements, outsourcing arrangements, public/private sector collaborations, and structures and organisational forms adopted by commissioners and providers across the NHS (from contractual joint venture arrangements through to formal corporate entities).

Louise also has experience advising clients on major transactions and projects, from the due diligence stage to drafting and negotiating transactional documents.

She has also obtained in-house experience, having been seconded to an NHS foundation trust and two private healthcare providers. Prior to joining DAC Beachcroft, she worked as legal counsel for a global outsourcing provider and an IT services provider.

Louise’s experience includes:

• Advising on a joint instruction basis for four NHS trusts in relation to the procurement of a laboratory information management system (LIMS). Louise was a key part of the team, working with and co-ordinating advice from a team of lawyers advising on all aspects of the project, from commercial, employment, and property aspects as well as helping the clients with project management aspects required by the collaboration
• Advising an NHS foundation Trust on a joint venture model with primary care providers to support the integration of services between primary and secondary care services
• Working with four NHS trusts (both NHS foundation trusts and NHS Trusts) on a common interest basis, in connection with the formal commercial structure to be adopted to offer a single managed pathology service its region
• Supporting an Independent Healthcare Provider (“IHP”) with a wholesale review of its private patient terms and conditions to ensure alignment with market best practice and consumer law requirements. Following the judgement of Bartolomucci, Louise worked with the IHP to further amend its Patient T&Cs to ensure clarity in the contractual arrangements agreed between the IHP and its patients, in particular, ensuring that there are clear lines of accountability and liability in relation to the care and treatment provided by the IHP, and the care and treatment provided by independent consultants.