Focus Industry
Retirement Villages and Aged Care
Summary
Retirement villages and aged care facilities are more than just places to live. They are communities that offer a range of services and support to enhance the quality of life and wellbeing of their residents. However, they also operate in a highly specialised and regulated sector that faces its own unique opportunities and challenges.
If you are involved in the retirement village sector, you need legal advice from experts who understand the intricacies and complexities of this field. That's where we come in. We are the largest specialist retirement village law practice in New Zealand, with over 30 years of experience and a proven track record of delivering results. We work with over half of New Zealand's registered retirement villages and associated aged care facilities, providing them with comprehensive and tailored solutions for their legal needs.
Key services
Retirement village development and registration
Aged care
Retirement village compliance and operational services
Healthcare
Villageinfonet and RV settlements
Work Highlights
- Acting for a range of operators, from large groups to small not-for-profit entities to trustee companies, in their role as statutory supervisors of retirement villages.
- Advising on sales and acquisitions of retirement villages and aged care facilities, recently including the sale of Oceania Healthcare's Everil Orr retirement village business, and the sale of four separate retirement and aged care businesses for Merivale-Willowlea Holdings Limited.
- Advising on complaints and dispute resolution, including attending dispute panel hearings.
- Advising on retirement village financing, and statutory supervisor security sharing arrangements.
- Advising retirement village operators on the introduction of care suites in existing retirement villages.
- Acting on the managed exit of a resident causing distress to other residents and posing a safety risk to a vulnerable resident.
- Advising on a care centre resident with impaired cognitive function wanting to self-discharge from care, to protect client from potential liability.