Health Care

• Negotiated numerous joint ventures between both private and public health care companies
• Negotiated numerous professional service contracts, affiliation agreements, clinical management agreements, managed care agreements, medical office leases, physician employment agreements, preferred provider agreements, and other miscellaneous health care contracts
• Represented numerous health care entities on a variety of health care compliance and regulatory issues, including Stark law and the Anti-kickback statute
• Successfully appealed ZPIC audits for hospice and therapy providers
• Lead associate in representation of a nonprofit corporation in connection with the purchase of the assets of several tissue banks and the national distribution of tissues recovered from human and cadaveric donors
• Lead associate in the defense of a public health care company against fraud and abuse claims made by the Office of the Inspector General
• Performed a legal review and audit of therapy charts for a private company owning a chain of skilled nursing facilities

Mergers and Acquisitions

• Representation of a public health care company with a $1.3 billion enterprise value in connection with its merger with and into another public health care company
• Representation of a public health care company in connection with the equity exchange of an independent rehabilitation facility and a long term acute care hospital
• $75 Million sale of a health care data mining company to a private equity firm
• Acquisition of a critical access hospital and related rural health clinics
• Representation of a St. Louis hospital in the acquisition of a competing hospital
• Several acquisitions by a Berkshire Hathaway company of manufacturing and technology companies
• Representation of several private cellular tower companies in connection with the $88 million sale of substantially all of their assets to a public communication company
• Representation of a privately held company in the $43 million acquisition of two private communication companies
• Assisted in representation of a public manufacturing company in its merger with and into another public manufacturing company ($340 million enterprise value)
• Assisted in representation of a public manufacturing company in its merger with and into a private equity firm ($448 million enterprise value)

Commercial Contracts/General Corporate

• Negotiated and drafted sales and supply agreements for a Fortune 100 health care company
• Negotiated and drafted license agreements, distribution and representation agreements, service agreements, supply agreements, confidentiality agreements, consulting agreements and independent contractor agreements
• Negotiated and drafted operating agreements, shareholders’ agreements and other corporate documents
• Served as general corporate counsel to various clients in connection with day-to-day operations, corporate infrastructure, reorganization and corporate compliance