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Health Care Transactions

The highly regulated and continuously evolving health care environment offers a range of risks and opportunities for dealmakers.

Troutman Pepper Locke provides comprehensive, end-to-end services to handle all aspects of our clients’ transactions, from regulatory compliance to corporate issues and M&A. Our deep understanding of the health care market, both nationally and regionally, combined with our seamless service and team efficiencies, offers key advantages to our clients.

Comprehensive Services

We represent health industry clients in many aspects of their day-to-day business needs and assist them in structuring relationships and initiatives with third parties to achieve their strategic, care delivery, and health care financing goals. Our clients include strategic and financial buyers and sellers, private equity firms, real estate developers and operators, bond issuers, and others. We structure, negotiate, and consummate transactions, and obtain change of control approvals in mergers and acquisitions and investments in health care-related businesses.

Key Areas of Focus

  • Physician and Provider Practices and Groups: We assist with organizing and managing businesses, acquiring medical practices, negotiating hospital contracts, and securing practice management services.
  • Health Systems and Hospitals: We provide strategic counsel to operate effectively and in compliance with the myriad laws and regulations implicated by the delivery of health care.
  • Health Facilities and Medical Service Providers: We assist with licensure and certification requirements for facilities, service providers and their licensed staff, ensure appropriate regulatory and licensing approvals for transactions and provide guidance on compliance with state and federal health care regulations.
  • Health Insurers and Managed Care Organizations: We advise on operational, business, and risk management issues, structuring relationships with third parties, and value-based care payment models.
  • Mergers and Acquisitions: We assist buyers and sellers in the purchase, sale, and merger of health care organizations, from due diligence to post-closing integration.
  • Strategic Initiatives, Joint Ventures, and Outsourcing: We help analyze, structure, and implement ownership and contractual joint ventures to align interests and improve health care quality and cost-efficiency.
  • Private Equity: We represent portfolio health care companies in equity raising transactions and private equity funds in fund formation or investments in health care delivery organizations.
  • Tax: We provide tax advice related to the tax-exempt status of nonprofit health care systems and other organizations, and counsel for-profit organizations on acquisitions and strategic transactions.
  • Pharmacies and PBMs: We advise on licensure, regulatory compliance, Medicare and Medicaid matters, HIPAA obligations, and contractual arrangements involving pharmacies and PBMs.
  • Telemedicine and Telehealth: We advise on regulatory compliance, licensure, privacy, and security matters for telehealth technology companies, as well as providers who utilize telehealth technology.
  • Insolvency: We counsel on the health care regulatory aspects of insolvency, Medicare and Medicaid payment issues, and creditors’ rights.
  • Lending and Real Estate: We assist with operational issues and regulatory compliance for medical office buildings, hospitals, assisted living facilities, and other senior living facilities.

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