Rashpal Sarkaria
Partner
Rashpal is a Partner in Capsticks' Commercial team. She provides transactional, corporate/commercial and contractual advice to a range of NHS, private sector and social enterprise clients.
Rashpal has wide-ranging experience of NHS transactions (including statutory transfers) and has advised on a number of IT and outsourcing projects and joint venture and partnering arrangements (some involving social enterprises). On such projects, Rashpal has advised on the contractual arrangements between the parties to the transaction, constitutional and governance issues, and the supporting service level agreements.
Rashpal has extensive experience of providing pragmatic advice to achieve preferred outcomes as to risk management. Her familiarity with joint working/consortium arrangements assist in providing relevant advice to clients.
Notable Projects
- Advising on a number of pathology service reconfigurations. Essentially the transactions take the forms of a joint venture that consolidates the pathology services of two or more providers under a single management structure.
- Advising a number of NHS Trusts in the outsourcing of pharmacy services.
- Advising a private hospital in outsourcing its pathology services with the aim of reducing costs and improving performance.
- Advising a foundation trust in its long term partnership with a private company to develop a new £4m facility to deliver a new model of care for adults suffering from mental health conditions transitioning back to life in the community.
Admitted as a Solicitor
2004
Publications
'Contractual Best Practices', published in HSJ, Spring 2012
Qualifications
- LLB (Hons) Birmingham University
- LPC - College of Law
