Matters
- Represented two national hospital systems and many regional systems with operations nationwide. Lead counsel on dozens of M&A transactions, joint ventures and other affiliations, including several transactions valued at over $1 billion.
- Represented academic medical centers in several states. Lead counsel on hospital and physician practice acquisitions and formation of clinically integrated provider networks.
- Defended a hospital system against the Washington Attorney General’s antitrust challenges to two acquisitions of physician practices. We won the first challenge on summary judgment (the only known case in which a government merger challenge has been defeated on summary judgment) and settled the second with no divestitures.
- Defended health care providers against monopolization claims based on exclusive contracting practices. In one case, we won complete dismissal of an antitrust claim brought against a Texas hospital system by invoking the state’s anti-SLAPP statute, marking the first successful use of the statute to defeat an antitrust claim.
- Defended a generic pharmaceutical manufacturer in pending multidistrict antitrust class actions alleging price-fixing and related criminal investigations.
- Represented a generic drug manufacturer in a pending antitrust challenge to a branded drug manufacturer’s use of bundled discounts and exclusive dealing, forcing retailers not to carry generics.
