Like any business, hospitals and other institutional health care providers have a stable of corporate and finance needs. However, health care businesses are subject to a highly restrictive set of legal requirements that render ordinarily desirable relationships illegal. Our goal is to provide our clients with excellence in corporate, finance and lending services while also being aware of the business and regulatory restraints that affect health care businesses. Our experienced corporate law practice advises our health care clients on a variety of matters, including:
• Mergers, acquisitions, corporate affiliations, joint ventures
• Integrated delivery system developments.
• Choice of entity for new health care providers
• Construction contracts
• Contracts for shared services
• Contracts between provider types
• Contracts with physicians and physician groups from business, fraud and abuse, and IRS/tax exempt perspectives
• Corporate and medical staff bylaw drafting and interpretation
• Financings of all types
• Employee benefit programs (pensions, executive compensation, etc.)
• Employment and personal service contracts
• Equipment leases
• Faculty practice plans and tax exempt foundations
• HUD insured financings
• Labor and employment matters
• Management services arrangements
• Research and development agreements
• Tax exempt public offerings and private placements for qualified 501(c)(3) organizations
• Technology transfers, licensing agreements, and other technology commercialization agreements
• Tax issues for both non-profit and proprietary clients