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Natalia Rojas

Natalia Rojas Alvarez

Consultant Solicitor

Procurement & Commercial

Natalia is a well-respected commercial lawyer who specialises in public procurement and all legal matters related to the procurement function of the public sector. With 10 years post qualification experience, Natalia has spent the last 7 years providing legal and procurement advice to NHS Trusts, Clinical Commissioning Groups and Commissioning Support Units.

She started her career working for American multinational companies bidding for work in the UK, Spain and France. Working for the other side of the fence has provided Natalia with invaluable knowledge of the ins and outs of a commercial business, which has contributed to Natalia´s pragmatic advice on procurement strategy and Intellectual property matters to public sector organisations wanting to be more commercial.

Natalia explains technicalities in plain language and when she is not helping her clients she likes to shop online, after all... She is a procurement professional!

Natalia provides legal advice on procurement matters and has successfully established a commercial governance and compliance function within the NHS which played an integral role in the attainment of CIPS Corporate certification. As a result the organization became the first NHS organisation to achieve Gold level standard, demonstrating it has the procurement and supply policies, strategies, procedures and processes to achieve procurement excellence.

Her main areas of knowledge are procurement and commercial law, also as Head of Legal for an NHS procurement organisation her negotiation skills, commercial and strategic advice makes Natalia a trusted partner to all her clients.

The advice provided to public sector clients can extrapolate to companies looking to provide services and goods to the public sector, including but not limited to private providers of healthcare services, SME’s, and technology companies looking to develop software for medical purposes.

SPECIALISM: Outsourcing & Procurement | Commercial

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The advice provided to public sector clients can extrapolate to companies looking to provide services and goods to the public sector, including but not limited to private providers of healthcare services, SME’s, and technology companies looking to develop software for medical purposes.

Independent, expert advice and support public sector clients ensuring their statutory duties and legislative compliance is up to date by:

  • Working closely with stakeholders at all levels of the organisations she works with, to ensure they produce complete, accurate and relevant documentation for purchase of goods and services and for commissioning of healthcare and social services.
  • Providing expert advice in relation to all procurement related legal matter which include:
    • competition law considerations,
    • employment law such as TUPE legislation in relation to procurement requirements and contractual obligation,
    • Intellectual property considerations when procuring technology and consultancy services
  • Analysing and interpreting highly complex, high value commercial and non-commercial caseloads.
  • Researching and preparing expert legal advice on all aspects of developments in legislation, identifying and raising implications for the Clients; and audits to improve the legal framework within the Client.
  • Researching, preparing and presenting legal briefs on key legal matters as necessary, to improve Client internal processes in relation to procurement decisions.
  • Undertaking procurement exercises to reduce the likelihood of legal challenges in line with the principles of transparency, equal treatment and to ensure consideration of patients' needs....

Natalia is conversant with the NHS “Procurement, Patient Choice and Competition” and the “Public Contracts” Regulations and their implementation to ensure direct award contracts for healthcare and social services are in line with the legislation.

Natalia ensures that Contracts are fit for purpose and meet the required outcomes, by employing:

  • Risk assessment of procurement strategy and contractual arrangements to minimise risks and obtain best value for money and in line with Procurement Regulations, Data Protection and any other relevant legislation which impact on stakeholder organisations service delivery and beyond.
  • Drafting model contracts for the use within its clients to ensure negotiation power resides with them and facilitates negotiations, saves time and minimizes risks
  • Drafting and reviewing diverse types of contracts including but not limited to commercial and non-commercial agreement such as License agreements, data sharing agreements, intellectual property agreements, Non-disclosure Agreements, lease agreements and any other contract required.
  • Due diligence in existing and new contracts ensuring compliance with GDPR and Data Protection Legislation

Natalia qualified as a lawyer in 2008 in one of the most prestigious Spanish Universities. After finishing her degree she lived in Ireland and Spain for a few years until, she moved to the UK in 2011 where she consolidated her love for procurement and the NHS.

She speaks English, French and Spanish and has worked in multinational and multicultural environments which has contributed to Natalia’s ability to adapt to different business approaches: Making her not only a trusted legal advisor but also a business partner to any organisation she works with.
  • Natalia is part of the working group that revised the first NHS standard terms and conditions, that are currently used across the industry.
  • Legal advisor on MCP and New Models of care and stakeholder on NHS England Events.
  • Involved in the National Agenda for NHS Integrated Care and New Models of Care in 2016, providing legal advice as to the Competition and Procurement Law implications.