Kayla is a member of the firm’s Healthcare Department, one of the largest healthcare practices in the United States. In her practice, she primarily focuses on healthcare transactions and related compliance matters, including mergers and acquisitions, strategic affiliations, joint ventures, and divestitures.

She regularly counsels large physician practices, private equity funds, hospitals, ambulatory surgical centers, imaging facilities, and lenders through complex deal processes. In this capacity, she negotiates operating agreements, purchase agreements, subscription agreements, physician employment agreements, and management agreements. She also counsels clients on a variety of other regulatory matters in connection with transactions and strategic affiliations, including corporate structuring, corporate practice of medicine, licensing, fraud and abuse, and HIPAA issues.

Within the Healthcare Department, Kayla leads the firm’s working group on the women’s health subsector, as well as hospital and health system ventures. In this role, she is a frequent publisher of thought leadership on developing transactional and compliance matters in both subsectors, hosts a monthly transactional podcast, and presents several webinar series on key transactional and regulatory matters impacting physician practices, health systems, and private equity funds.

Before graduating first in her class from William & Mary Law School, Kayla served as notes editor for the William & Mary Law Review. While attending William & Mary Law School, Kayla also received the Benjamin Rush Award for excellence in Health Law.

  • Representation of the parent to a physician owned hospital and ambulatory surgery center in a majority equity sale to a joint venture partnership among major health systems and a national ambulatory healthcare provider.
  • Representation of a Pennsylvania ophthalmology practice and eye ambulatory surgery center in a multi-million dollar sale to a leading management services organization serving the ophthalmology sector.
  • Representation of a national management services organization and one of the nation’s largest single-specialty physician networks in the partnership and acquisition of an OB/GYN practice with offices in Massachusetts.
  • Representation of one of the largest providers of Outpatient Surgery in the U.S. in its reorganization of a California-based surgical center.
  • Representation of an owner and operator of ambulatory surgery centers, anatomic pathology laboratories, anesthesia entities and physician practices in its $10 million acquisition of an entity that provides the technical aspects of surgical services.

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Selected for inclusion in Leading Lawyers, Healthcare, Illinois, Chambers USA, 2024, 2025

Selected for inclusion in Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch, Health Care Law, 2023, 2024, 2025

Selected for inclusion in “Legal 500 United States,” Healthcare: Service Providers, 2022-2025

Named to “Healthcare Power List,” North Carolina Lawyer Weekly, 2023

Recipient, “2023 Emerging Leaders Award,” The M&A Advisor, 2023

Named to “Reader’s Choice Awards,” for “U.S. Senate Passes American Rescue Plan — 10 Key Updates for Healthcare Providers,” one of the most-read articles, JD Supra, 2022