Healthcare Transactions

Primary contacts

Janice Z. Davis, Stephen A. Jannetta, Sameer V. Mohan, Jonathan D. Morris, Banee Pachuca, Mark B. Stein

Our healthcare transactions team boasts more than 250 lawyers—many recognized as market leaders in their respective areas—who regularly develop innovative legal, regulatory, and commercial solutions for the full array of healthcare clients. We collaborate across practices on a broad range of commercial and corporate transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, private and public financings, restructurings, divestitures, affiliations, and joint ventures.

We offer sophisticated counsel on a variety of healthcare joint venture transactions and service agreements between and among healthcare providers, addressing applicable regulatory, fraud and abuse, and tax law implications. Our team includes lawyers with a command of the issues that often arise in complex transactions, including transactional, corporate governance, intellectual property, tax, employee benefits, labor and employment, regulatory and licensing, and fraud and abuse matters. Our healthcare transactions bench is deep, enabling us to advise on all aspects of these transactions.

We represent a wide array of healthcare enterprises, including the following:

Hospitals and health systems
Physician groups
Behavioral health providers
Home health and hospice providers
Outpatient care facilities
Sub-acute and post-acute care providers
Health plans and insurers
Healthcare information technology and service vendors
Venture capital funds
Private equity sponsors
Strategic buyers of healthcare service companies
Professional service firms
Investment banks
Institutional lenders
Independent director committees
Management groups

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Capital Markets & Public Companies

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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Corporate & Finance

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

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Mergers & Acquisitions

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.

Private Equity

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.

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Select Matters Handled by Our Lawyers

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