Healthcare Transactions

For healthcare clients, our lawyers apply their skills to complex capital markets transactions, corporate governance matters, and public issuer reporting requirements. We represent healthcare companies and underwriters on the full range of US and global public offerings of securities and stock exchange listings on all US and alternative markets. Our lawyers, including both capital markets advisers and securities litigators, regularly advise and represent boards of directors, board committees, and company executives on both extraordinary and routine situations arising from the current financial disclosure and regulatory environment.

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Our lawyers regularly handle sophisticated corporate and finance matters ranging from several million to billions of dollars per transaction, including the following:

• Mergers and acquisitions
• Public and private equity financings
• Joint ventures and other strategic commercial agreements
• Real estate matters
• Business acquisitions and divestitures
• Negotiated business combinations by public and private companies
• Tender offers (friendly and hostile)
• Proxy contests
• Restructurings
• Leveraged buyouts
• Public-to-private transactions
• Joint venture transactions and service agreements between and among healthcare providers and payors with careful consideration of the applicable regulatory, fraud and abuse, and tax law implications at play

Learn more about our Corporate, Finance & Investment Management team.

Our team regularly handles million- to multimillion-dollar transactions involving business combinations and affiliations, as well as mergers, acquisitions, restructurings, divestitures, and joint ventures. We draw from our firm’s deep healthcare regulatory talent pool to counsel clients on all facets of these deals, including the full range of applicable US federal, state, and cross-border compliance requirements.

We collaborate seamlessly across practices to guide our healthcare clients in the full spectrum of matters arising in an M&A or joint venture transaction, including the following:

• Environmental
• Labor and employment
• Compensation
• Government contract issues
• Regulatory and licensing obligations
• Intellectual property rights
• Tax
• Purchase and divestiture agreements
• Tender offers
• Restructurings
• Joint ventures, spin-offs, leveraged buyouts, and public-to-private transactions
• Acquiring distressed assets

Learn more about our Mergers & Acquisitions team.

We provide full-spectrum coverage for an array of private equity clients operating in the healthcare sector. We emphasize responsive, clear, and comprehensive representation that integrates our significant transactional and regulatory capabilities into a seamless advisory solution.

We offer market-informed transactional and finance counsel tailored to the investment objectives of the private equity sponsor and the business and regulatory realities of the portfolio company and its industry, including the following services:

• Evaluating commercial and regulatory risks to design, structure, and implement business models that meet legal and financial considerations in order to execute deals effectively and efficiently
• Identifying and quantifying risk, and constructing structural and contractual frameworks to allocate that risk
• Assisting portfolio companies during the investment period with issues that surface during and after the acquisition and addressing emerging legal risks to prepare for an ultimate sale.

Learn more about our Private Equity practice.

• A group of investors led by TVM Capital Healthcare Partners Limited, an emerging markets-focused healthcare private equity investment firm, on the sale of their portfolio company Cambridge Medical and Rehabilitation Center to Amanat Holdings PJSC, a United Arab Emirates-based publicly traded investment company that focuses on education and healthcare investments
• Walker County Hospital District and a newly formed entity, Huntsville Community Hospital, in their co-stalking horse purchase of bankrupt Huntsville Memorial Hospital
• The founder of German healthcare company Rhön-Klinikum AG, Eugen Münch, and investment firm HCM SE in a joint venture with hospital group Asklepios and the voluntary takeover of Rhön-Klinikum
• Tabula Rasa HealthCare, a healthcare technology company advancing the field of medication safety, in the acquisition of cloud-based patient relationship management solutions company PrescribeWellness
• Direct Vet Marketing Inc. (also known as Vets First Choice) in its merger with the animal health business of Henry Schein Inc., which was spun off as a separate publicly traded company, Covetrus