Lawyers / Professionals

 
Scott P. Downing       
Partner
77 West Wacker Drive
Suite 4100
Chicago, Illinois 60601-1818
T: 312.750.8910
F: 312.920.6126
sdowning@mcguirewoods.com
 

Mr. Downing focuses his practice on structuring issues for health care companies, including joint ventures among various providers and with non-provider third parties. He has also participated in numerous transactions involving the purchase or sale of health care facilities representing both buyers and sellers of such companies. He has extensive experience assisting ancillary service providers with all of their health care regulatory and corporate needs, including ambulatory surgery centers, dialysis facilities and specialty hospitals, as well as counseling large physician practices on the appropriate way to structure the provision of ancillary services by such practices.


Representative Matters
  • Assisted numerous parties (physicians and institutional participants) concerning a variety of health care ventures regarding organizational and operational issues for joint ventures, practice and multiprovider integrations and other single specialty and multispecialty facilities including dialysis facilities, ambulatory surgery centers, hospitals (including single specialty and physician-owned hospitals), and physician practices.
  • Negotiated numerous transactions concerning the sale and acquisition of health care entities including ambulatory surgery centers, dialysis facilities, specialty hospitals, imaging facilities, hospital divisions and physician practices.
  • Negotiated and prepared documentation concerning single specialty and multispecialty physician practices including the organization, operation, purchase of and exit strategies for such practices.
  • Negotiated and prepared physician employment agreements.
  • Counseled health care clients regarding compliance with the Medicare and Medicaid Fraud and Abuse laws, the Stark Act, state fraud and abuse and self referral acts, certificate of need issues, fee splitting and corporate practice of medicine issues, regulatory compliance program issues, and public and private securities laws issues.

Practices & Industries
Honors
  • Associate Editor, Business Lawyer, American Bar Association Publication, 1993-1994

Articles
  • Mr. Downing has authored or co-authored a variety of articles on business and legal topics affecting the firm's health care clients.

Speaking Engagements
  • Mr. Downing routinely speaks to industry and trade groups concerning legal and business issues in health care.

Professional Affiliations
  • American Health Lawyers Association

Civic Affiliations
  • Board of Directors, Naked Eye Theatre Company (Nonprofit)
 

EDUCATION

University of Chicago Law School, Chicago, Illinois, J.D., 1991

University of Illinois, B.A., 1988

 
 

ADMITTED

Illinois 1991