Paul Gomez represents health care and behavioral health care providers and investors in some of their most significant acquisitions, joint ventures and affiliations, as well as with respect to their day-to-day operations. He combines his understanding of the major developments driving health care and behavioral health care transactions and affiliations with his knowledge of key legal requirements to help clients reach their respective patient care and business goals in a practical and efficient manner.

Paul's health care/behavioral health care M&A and regulatory practice is centered around:

  • Behavioral health treatment centers
  • Complex hospital/physician integration models, acquisitions, joint ventures and affiliations 
  • Physician practice acquisitions (Led and completed over 250 physician practice acquisitions/sales)
  • Private equity health care M&A
  • Friendly PC/MSO Arrangements and related regulatory matters 
  • Formation and expansion of license-exempt medical foundation clinics 
  • Ambulatory Surgery Centers (ASCs)
  • Urgent Care Clinics
  • Direct-to-employer ACOs

Paul has been a member of the American Health Law Association for over 20 years.

Education

  • Albany Law School (J.D., 2001)
    • Matthew Bender Prize for "Highest Achievement in Trusts and Estates," Albany Law Review, Veterans Legal Aid
  • Claremont McKenna College (B.A., 1995)
    • Politics, Philosophy, and Economics

Bar Admission

  • California, 2005
  • New York, 2002

Court Admissions

  • State of California, 2005
  • State of New York, 2002
  • U.S. District Court, Northern District of New York, 2002

Professional Affiliations

  • American Health Law Association, 2002-present
    • Hospitals and Health Systems member
    • Business Law and Governance member
  • California Society for Healthcare Attorneys, 2004-present
  • Los Angeles County Bar Association, 2004-present
    • Healthcare Law Section
      • Executive Committee
      • Former Chair

Recognition

  • 14th Annual M&A Advisor Turnaround Awards, Healthcare/Life Sciences Deal of the Year ($50MM to $100MM), Restructuring of Elements Behavioral Health 
  • 11th Annual Americas M&A Atlas Awards, USA Restructuring Deal of the Year, Middle Markets, Nominee Winner: Elements Behavioral Health Restructuring and Sale of Assets 
  • Recognized by the Los Angeles Business Journal as a Leader in Healthcare and Trusted Advisor, 2018
  • Ranked in Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business, Healthcare, California, 2015-2026
  • Selected for inclusion in Southern California Super Lawyers Healthcare and Business, 2017-2021
  • The Legal 500 United States - M&A (Middle Market category), 2015-2016 
  • Selected for inclusion in Best Lawyers in America® for Health Care Law, 2021-2026
Publications
All Publications
OHCA Publishes Draft Regulations Implementing AB 1415 to Capture Health Care Transactions with Private Equity, Hedge Funds and MSOs
Key Takeaways OHCA has published draft regulations that expand its pre-transaction notice requirements to transactions involving private equity groups, hedge funds, certain management services organizations and newly created entities entering into transactions with health care entities. OHCA also proposed revised standards and procedures in its existing regulations, including adding information and documents to be disclosed and refining the procedures for conducting Cost and Market Impact Reviews. Among other focuses, the proposed regulations demonstrate OHCA’s interest in details of the arrangements between private equity groups and California health care entities and the impact of transactions on real estate where health care is delivered. Some of the new standards and requirements bear a notable resemblance to language used in some terms of the recent proposed
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California AG Settlement Signals Heightened Scrutiny of Corporate Practice of Medicine and Dentistry
Key Takeaways: California’s Attorney General opened a new front in the state’s war against private equity-backed PC/MSO1 arrangements through its recent settlement with a dental services organization. The settlement reaches far beyond recent legislative action and demands careful attention from operators in this space. While the settlement does not create any binding legal precedent, investors and operators in PC/MSO structures involving licensed professionals should evaluate their existing operations in light of the settlement framework — with a particular emphasis on licensed professional control of clinical decisions. Careful attention to public communications, advertising, marketing and branding is more important than ever, as the settlement reinforces that consumer-facing statements may draw scrutiny where they suggest control over clinical services, provider relationships or practice operations. California regulators are
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