Capsticks has advised South London and Maudsley NHS FT on entering a master research collaboration agreement launching a new facility dedicated to accelerating psychedelic research and developing new models of care for mental health in the UK.

Capsticks has played a key role in the completion and opening of two new multi-storey car parks for Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust. The firm advised on the redevelopment of both sites, which aim to provide easier access to the hospitals.

Capsticks has enhanced its defendant personal injury offering with the arrival of Legal Director Deborah McClean. Deborah’s experience in healthcare and prison claims will be invaluable to Capsticks’ clients in the health, social care and public sectors.

Capsticks has been selected as one of only five legal providers for a new framework agreement organised by housing associations North Star and Castles and Coasts. It is the latest addition to a growing client base in the North.

Capsticks continues to be one of Sovereign Housing’s main legal advisors, following the firm’s appointment to its new, four-year legal services framework.

Our new, five-year EDI strategy and plan will set us on our path to deliver positive change and become a truly diverse, equitable and inclusive business, to the benefit of our clients and everyone working for and with us. Read more in our press release.

Capsticks is among the high-profile BPFS firms celebrating success and looking ahead to another year of engaging young people across the West Midlands with the future of the sector. Read more on the Ahead Partnership's Growing Talent careers programme.

Joining the EM Lawshare framework in April 2022, Capsticks will become a key partner to membership organisations and work in collaboration with other legal providers to best support the public sector nationally.

Capsticks are part of a panel of law firms that have been awarded a contract with Platform Housing Group, one of the firm’s eight framework appointments in the housing sector so far during 2021/22.

Partner Neil Bhan has joined Capsticks’ employment and pensions law team. Neil brings over twenty years’ experience of advising employers, trustees and public sector bodies on all areas of pensions law.

Best Companies found that Capsticks is now an “outstanding place to work”, awarding a rating of two stars out of a possible three, with many areas already rated at Best Companies’ highest “world class” level (three stars).

We delivered all legal support on the Pears Maudsley Centre project, from funding, completion of contractual arrangements to construction. It is an exceptional example of joint working between the NHS and the education and charity sectors.