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Bart Walker

Bart Walker Partner

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Co-leader of McGuireWoods’ Healthcare & Life Sciences Industry Team, Bart guides healthcare providers, equity sponsors and lenders through mergers and acquisitions, strategic joint ventures and regulatory issues.

For more than 20 years, he has been a trusted advisor to hospitals, health systems, ambulatory surgery centers, dental services organizations (DSOs), large physician group practices and other ancillary services providers on their most important regulatory and transactional matters.

Bart represents private equity funds, healthcare innovators and founders, sellers, physicians and other capital providers in various healthcare-related purchase, sale and financing transactions. He assists in the re-syndication and start-up of practice management platforms, ambulatory surgery centers and hospital-physician joint ventures.

A renowned thought leader on healthcare deal activity and trends, Bart is frequently invited to speak at industry events and has published dozens of articles in top healthcare and legal publications. Chambers USA, Legal 500 United States and The Best Lawyers in America recognize Bart as a top lawyer in healthcare.

While earning his law degree from the University of Notre Dame, Bart was named a White Scholar of the Thomas J. White Center on Law and Government and served as managing editor of the Journal of Law, Ethics & Public Policy. As an undergraduate, he was named a Morehead Scholar at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and was a member of the varsity baseball team.

Experience
  • Representation of a private equity fund in the multi-million dollar acquisition of an administrative services provider to a multi-site ophthalmology practice in New York.
  • Represented multiple tax-exempt health systems in connection with
    affiliation and sale transactions.
  • Represented large dermatology practice in formation of physician management
    services organization with private equity sponsor.
  • Represented private equity-backed dental services organization in
    multi-practice roll up.
  • Represented dental services organization in connection with initial formation
    and structuring, including establishment of dental practice and de novo clinical
    sites.
  • Represented nationwide clinical pathology lab business in growth recapitalization transaction with private equity fund.
  • Represented strategic acquirer in acquisition of majority interest in ambulatory surgery center.
  • Represented physician-owned ambulatory surgery center in sale to national strategic acquirer.
  • Negotiated tri-party joint venture surgery center among major health system, management company, and physician members.
  • Negotiated de novo surgery center joint venture between large hospital system and major orthopedic physician practice.
  • Represented a private equity fund in diligence and acquisition of one of the largest ASC chains in the country.
  • Represented a private equity fund in the acquisition of a multisite durable medical equipment provider.
  • Conducted regulatory and compliance diligence and transaction services on the acquisition of a medical device and pharmaceutical distributor, including change of ownership issues in 40 states.
  • Advised hospital on compliance with Stark, anti-kickback, and tax-exempt laws in the development of compensation arrangements for various physician services.
  • Represented nationwide provider of dialysis services in multi-facility dialysis facility acquisition.
  • Represented lead agent in healthcare regulatory aspects of syndicated credit facility to national provider of healthcare services.
  • Advised parties in structuring off-campus, provider-based facility.

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  • Selected for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America, Health Care Law, 2017-2026
  • Selected for inclusion in “Legal 500 United States,” Healthcare: Service Providers, 2021-2025
  • Selected for inclusion as a “Leading Lawyer” in Regulatory & Litigation, 2018, 2019; in Healthcare, 2020-2025, Chambers USA
  • Named “Lawyer of the Year,” Health Care Law, Charlotte, The Best Lawyers, 2021, 2024
  • Named to “North Carolina Rising Stars,” Health Care, Super Lawyers, Thomson Reuters, 2010-2019
  • Selected as an “Emerging Leader,” The M&A Advisor, 2017
  • Selected for inclusion as a “Leading Lawyer,” Healthcare: Service Providers, North Carolina, Legal 500 US, 2017
  • Named “Up and Coming” in America’s Leading Lawyers for Business, Healthcare, North Carolina, Chambers USA, 2017

“Bart Walker understands business issues and gives advice accordingly, focusing on the issues that matter.”

- Chambers USA, 2025

“He is very responsive, super-approachable and very trustworthy.”

- Chambers USA, 2025

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