Healthcare Transactions & Finance
McGuireWoods’ Healthcare Transactions & Finance Practice Group advises industry participants across healthcare sectors, including traditional healthcare market participants, such as for-profit and not-for-profit hospitals and health systems, as well as major players in the healthcare space, including fully integrated payer-provider enterprises and private equity-backed platforms on all aspects of healthcare transactions, finance and advisory matters.
Our role does not end at risk mitigation or closing a deal. We align our legal strategy with clients’ business goals while ensuring operations compliance. The team serves as clients’ business allies, helping solve thorny day-to-day matters alongside transactional negotiations and regulatory challenges.
How We Help
The cross-functional nature of our healthcare practice allows McGuireWoods to provide comprehensive representation on issues that play a role in any transaction. We advise on matters involving:
- mergers and acquisitions;
- joint ventures;
- finance and securities;
- antitrust;
- tax;
- labor and employment;
- executive compensation; and
- related laws and regulations.
Our lawyers pioneered new and creative structures in acquiring, combining and recapitalizing medical practices, physician practice management companies and other healthcare providers. The team also advises clients in planning and implementing joint ventures involving market participants, including hospital-hospital and hospital-physician ventures, value-based care organizations, professional office buildings, diagnostic centers, renal dialysis facilities and senior housing.
In every transaction, we work with clients and their other advisers to organize and analyze relevant due diligence; identify business, operational and legal challenges; and develop solutions to mitigate those risks. McGuireWoods’ healthcare corporate, finance and securities lawyers help clients:
- explore and implement financing arrangements;
- comply with and obtain appropriate clearance under tender offer, registration, proxy and other securities law requirements;
- identify and resolve potential legal problems (e.g., employee benefits, environmental, liability exposure, real estate, tax structuring, and governmental and other consent or approval issues); and
- negotiate and draft related agreements, including technology licensing and other technology-sharing agreements and documentation.
We also work with McGuireWoods’ Healthcare Compliance, Regulatory & Policy Practice Group to identify and overcome sophisticated and nuanced regulatory issues, providing clients with legal advice to navigate their most strategic matters.
Representative Experience
- Novant Health, a leading health system in North Carolina, in its $1.5 billion acquisition of New Hanover Regional Medical Center from New Hanover County;
- Origami Capital Partners, a venture capital and private equity firm, in its acquisition of a majority controlling interest in a pharmaceutical contract development and manufacturing organization; and
- Leading financial institution as administrative agent on a syndicated five-year credit facility and a 364-day credit facility for a healthcare and life sciences company, each valued at $5 billion.
McGuireWoods’ Healthcare Transactions & Finance Practice Group stays ahead of the curve, advising clients on novel deal structures and innovative subsectors in an ever evolving healthcare industry. We represent clients including some of the most well-known providers and investors in the country, in connection with transformative and cutting-edge affiliations, mergers, acquisitions and divestitures.
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