Mergers, Acquisitions & Transactions

Healthcare reform continues to drive the need for physicians, hospitals and health systems to adjust to accommodate regulatory requirements and changes in reimbursement. Hancock Daniel advises healthcare providers throughout the country on the opportunities available to best accomplish clients’ goals. The range of options may include both horizontal and vertical strategic affiliations and collaborations, asset or business acquisitions or sales, joint ventures with contractual or equity-ownership features, mergers, practice affiliations and other complex or multi-layered transactions. Hancock Daniel helps clients to understand the benefits as well as the legal and business risks associated with any healthcare transaction and advises clients in identifying and consummating the best approach to fit with the client’s goals.

Transactions:

  • Mergers
  • Acquisitions
  • Affiliations
  • Collaborations
  • Divestitures
  • Investments
  • Joint Ventures

Merger, Acquisition & Transaction Services:

  • Structuring, negotiating, documenting, consummating and implementing acquisition transactions
  • Hospital, healthcare facility and physician joint ventures
  • Mergers, including state cooperative agreements
  • Tax-exempt entity affiliations and conversions to for-profit status
  • Physician group alignment models, including mergers, group practices without walls, and other financially integrated models
  • Ambulatory surgery center transactions
  • Asset purchase agreements
  • Membership acquisitions
  • Strategic investments and private placements and compliance with securities laws
  • Bundled payment arrangements
  • Network affiliations
  • Due diligence reviews
  • Governance associated with healthcare transactions
  • Fraud and abuse, antitrust and tax-exemption compliance

Contact:

James (Jim) M. Daniel
James (Jim) M. Daniel