BUSINESS FORMATION AND OPERATIONS

Our attorneys advise clients on all aspects of business operations including initial company formation, enacting employment policies and employment agreements, negotiating and renegotiating contracts, commercial and private finance, as well as entering into joint ventures and buying or selling a healthcare related business or medical practice, and planning and review of business structures and transactions to ensure compliance with regulations affecting healthcare providers such as Stark Law and Federal Anti-Kickback regulations.

PHYSICIAN EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENTS

We offers a full array of legal services for healthcare organization employers, including employment litigation defense, covenant not to compete prosecution and defense, preventative counseling, manager training, and corporate immigration services.

HEALTHCARE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

We draft and negotiate a variety of contracts related to acquiring or licensing healthcare information technology and intellectual property, including joint ventures, outsourcing, research and development agreements, technology transfers, licensing, OEM and distribution arrangements, as well as consulting and service agreements.  

TAX PLANNING

With reimbursement rates on the decline and tax rates on the rise, the importance of tax planning for healthcare professionals and organizations is increasingly important. Our attorneys help our clients structure business relationships and transactions to minimize tax.  

RISK MANAGEMENT AND ASSET PROTECTION

We understand that making a living in healthcare is hard work. We also understand the healthcare professionals are often the target of lawsuits. Our attorneys help clients ensure that they can preserve the fruits of their labor. We work with healthcare professionals to manage risks by properly structuring their business entities, enacting best practices policies, and by structuring their business and personal interests to minimize tax and maximize protections from frivolous claims and judgment creditors.  

MERGERS, ACQUISITIONS AND DIVESTITURES

We counsel and assist businesses in a wide range of negotiated transactions including mergers, divestitures, stock purchases, asset purchases, recapitalizations, as well as joint ventures and other strategic alliances. Our attorneys are experienced in conducting due diligence and representing clients in all aspects of mergers, acquisitions and divestitures.  Our attorneys formulate the strategy, structure, and negotiating positions necessary to consummate the deal, draft and negotiate the terms of the sale agreements, and plan to minimize the tax impact on our client.   Our attorneys are experienced in advising clients ranging from individuals and small privately held businesses to multinational corporations on all types of M&A transactions, including mergers, purchases and sales of stock and assets, management buyouts, recapitalizations and other corporate restructurings.

DISTRESSED BUSINESSES, ACQUISITIONS & DIVESTITURES

Hospital systems have been expanding in recent years. As the economy has slowed, more hospital beds are empty. With the tight credit market, many healthcare organizations will refinance their businesses and consider formal or informal restructurings. It is likely that many healthcare organizations will find themselves distressed as the economic slowdown continues. This may create acquisition opportunities for investors or for healthcare businesses who may be able to acquire existing hospitals more cheaply than building and developing new facilities.  

FINANCE & RESTRUCTURING

We assist clients raise capital with the private offering of securities by means of private placement memoranda. We counsel clients regarding exemptions from state and federal securities registration laws and related regulatory matters. Our attorneys draft private offering documents, negotiate and structuring debt instruments, as well as other financing relationships. We can help clients restructure their debt obligations, workouts, debt restructurings and reorganizations.  

REAL ESTATE ACQUISITION, DEVELOPMENT AND DISPOSITION

Our attorneys assist our clients in an array of matters including not only the acquisition, disposition, and development of real property, but also commercial easing, litigation, preparation of contracts, and structuring of transactions. Our representation includes all types of real estate sales and acquisitions, construction, property development, commercial easing, like-kind exchanges and all other aspects of real property and related finance law. Our attorneys provide analysis, advice and counsel regarding the structuring of real estate transactions and related financing arrangements, including tax planning related to the real estate transaction.  

CONTACT US

To speak to an attorney about the legal issues affecting your healthcare organization, please contact us here or call 713.650.9700.

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