Lawyers / Professionals

Mr. Walker concentrates on mergers, acquisitions, and healthcare regulatory compliance. His practice includes advising healthcare providers as well as life sciences companies. In connection with representing healthcare providers, he works with hospitals, ambulatory surgery centers, diagnostic laboratories, large physician group practices, end-stage renal disease facilities, home health agencies and radiation oncology centers on various regulatory and transactional matters. In connection with representing life sciences companies, he focuses on negotiating mergers, acquisitions, partnering arrangements, co-development and co-marketing agreements, and regulatory counseling for pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical devices companies.

He has represented lenders, borrowers and equity sponsors in various healthcare-related financing and acquisition transactions, including asset-based lending, mezzanine and senior credit facilities, and leveraged debt finance. He has assisted in the re-syndication and start-up of numerous ambulatory surgery centers and hospital-physician joint ventures. He regularly lectures and writes on transactional and regulatory issues affecting a wide range of healthcare providers and life sciences companies.