Complex rules affect the structure of health care-related mergers. Powell Goldstein's health care group has unique experience in navigating the complex regulatory issues that impact providers' transactions.

To advise our clients properly on the constantly changing regulatory environment, our attorneys stay well versed in antitrust, corporate, corporate securities, employee benefits, tax exemption, regulatory, certificate of need, governance, capitalization, liability, insolvency and workout, fraud and abuse and Stark and other legal issues surrounding the structure of these transactions.

Representative Matters:

• Counseled a large tax-exempt hospital as it purchased other providers and ancillary service providers
• Represented a hospital system as it acquired five hospitals through bankruptcy proceedings
• Handled integration strategies for a tax-exempt health care delivery system and advised on organizing physician-hospital organizations, ancillary providers and managed care organizations
• Advised our provider clients on due diligence in connection with possible acquisitions