06/02/2025
Leading commercial law firm Bevan Brittan has announced its second senior hire of 2025, with an experienced banking and finance partner joining its national healthcare finance team.
Kerry Gibbons, who joins from Knights, has experience across a broad range of finance transactions, including real estate finance on both the development and investment side, corporate finance, acquisition finance and structured finance. She acts for borrowers and lenders and has significant experience in the healthcare market. Legal 500 describes Kerry as “exceptional” and “a great listener, as well as great at giving advice”.
Kerry adds her skills to a team which has seen a significant rise in instructions in recent years and which advised on healthcare finance projects worth more than £250m in 2024.
Kerry is the second new partner to join Bevan Brittan in the opening weeks of 2025 after the arrival of pensions expert Joel Eytle in London.
Vincent Buscemi, Partner and Head of Independent Health and Care at Bevan Brittan, said: “We are delighted to welcome Kerry to our healthcare finance team. Our work for funders and borrowers has doubled in four years and in 2024 we advised on a host of healthcare finance projects, in addition to numerous corporate and commercial deals.
“Kerry's expertise will enhance our service offering, bringing additional strength and depth to our multi-award winning team. She will work closely with Sarah Skuse who leads our healthcare real estate practice and I’m excited to see what this collaboration brings to the market.”
Louise Leaver, Partner and Head of Banking at Bevan Brittan, added: “Kerry is a fantastic addition to our growing team of expert finance lawyers. We are very much looking forward to working with her to support all our clients, particularly across the healthcare sector.”
Kerry Gibbons added: “I’m delighted to be joining Bevan Brittan at such an exciting time. The wider business is going from strength to strength, while its fantastic track record when it comes to supporting healthcare clients speaks for itself.
“I’ve received a really warm welcome and I’m looking forward to helping my colleagues further develop the healthcare finance services that we provide.”
Kerry’s arrival is the latest boost for Bevan Brittan’s broader health and care practice. The business has top-tier rankings for healthcare in both the Legal 500 2025 and Chambers UK 2025 legal directories, while its experts also won the Legal Advisors of the Year – Transactional award at the HealthInvestor Awards 2024. Last year’s success was Bevan Brittan’s tenth win at the industry event and the fourth time the firm had won that specific award in the past five years.
