Health Care M&A Law Firm | Epstein Becker Green | Epstein Becker Green

Successfully buying, selling, and combining health care businesses is a legally complex, nuanced, and high-stakes process.

Clients involved in health care transactions need a trusted legal and business partner—a law firm that not only knows their business and the intricacies of their particular health care sector but also blends a detailed understanding of all of the technical and legal aspects of the deal, along with finding creative resolutions to major issues (to make deals happen), and a keen insight into the market forces at play in the health care industry.

Epstein Becker Green is that trusted partner. Our health care mergers and acquisitions attorneys immerse themselves within our clients’ operations to fully understand our clients’ vulnerabilities, opportunities, and goals, creating value at every stage of the deal, whether on the buy or sell side, and being proactive to get deals done.

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Health Care Is in Our Genes

As the vast health care space continues to expand and consolidate, companies across the entire health care continuum—particularly physician groups, hospital systems, nursing homes, home health agencies, ambulatory surgery centers, imaging centers, behavioral health providers, laboratories, telehealth providers, health care tech and device companies, pharmacies, clinical research organizations, and many other health care providers and businesses—turn to Epstein Becker Green to strategically position themselves for long-term success. As one of the country’s premier law firms in the health law field, with approximately 150 health care attorneys, we know the health care industry inside and out. We are regularly asked to provide transactional and regulatory support and counsel with respect to:

Acquisitions, mergers, sales, joint ventures, and strategic affiliations of a wide variety of regulated and non-regulated health care companies (including nonprofit/for-profit health care entity affiliations)

Conversions of nonprofit health care entities to for-profit health care entities

Physician consolidations into mega-groups, as well as major transactions with private equity platforms, hospitals, and national health care companies

Creation of licensed health care entities and management services organizations

Commercial lending transactions involving health care entities (including advice concerning securitization issues and venture capital transactions)

Acquisitions of health care businesses and assets in bankruptcy

Regulatory Due Diligence of Health Care Transactions

Buyers count on our M&A lawyers to thoroughly examine a target’s compliance posture and to assure them that regulatory issues—around billing and coding, health privacy and data security, false claims, fraud and abuse, licensing and accreditation, and various other types of potential regulatory exposure—will not impede the deal. Our extensive experience on the buy side of health care transactions provides valuable insights to enhance the benefit of our involvement on the sell side. In advance of a health care client going to market, we evaluate compliance issues that are likely to arise in the buyer’s due diligence and proactively advise sellers on implementing changes that will facilitate maximum value in a smooth transaction process.

End-to-End Support in Health Care Transactions

Our in-house capabilities cover a variety of disciplines that commonly arise within the context of health care mergers, acquisitions, consolidations, and other transactions beyond the health regulatory issues described above—such as antitrust, tax structuring, financings, corporate governance, intellectual property, government contracts, IT contracts, labor and employment, employee benefit plans, real estate, and environmental—in order to provide end-to-end transactional support in a cost-effective and efficient manner.

Comprehensive Services for Hospitals, Physicians, and Other Stakeholders

Our full suite of services includes:

Providing input on strategic plans/initiatives to grow various business relationships, including creative “outside the box” options

Providing guidance on antitrust issues and whether Hart-Scott-Rodino filings are required

Advising on a tax-efficient transaction’s structure and related tax impacts

Analyzing federal and state statutes affecting transaction options and structure in various areas

Evaluating the impacts of corporate organizational and other governance documents on transaction options and structure

Identifying and addressing significant commercial or financing obligations

Advising governing boards and senior management with respect to transaction options and structure

Coordinating and executing due diligence reviews, and preparing important “disclosure schedules” to protect sellers

Reviewing/drafting and negotiating transaction documentation

Compiling, or assisting our clients with compiling, the necessary documentation for obtaining any federal (e.g., Medicare) and state (e.g., department of health) regulatory approvals

Analyzing and negotiating the pension, welfare, and executive compensation aspects of the transaction

Correcting any benefit plan-related problems or liabilities resulting from the transaction, and preparing new or revised compensation and benefit agreements, plans, and arrangements for the post-acquisition company and its employees, executives, and directors