Hospital & Health Systems
Benesch Healthcare+ has represented numerous integrated health systems, academic medical centers, hospitals and affiliated physicians on various matters, including mergers and acquisitions, affiliations, joint ventures, strategic alliances, co-management relationships, governance, tax exemption, fraud and abuse, physician relationships, payer contracting, purchasing and vendor relationships, HIPAA, corporate compliance plans and training, medical staff organization, discipline and peer review, and litigation. These engagements have involved facilities ranging in size from small rural health centers and hospitals to community hospitals to large urban medical centers and multi-hospital integrated delivery systems including academic medical centers.
Benesch has a long history representing hospitals and health systems, both private and public. Given the breadth and depth of our experiences, we are well-equipped to quickly respond to questions and complete projects dealing with issues under health care, corporate, finance, tax and governmental laws and regulations that may now be unforeseen, but become apparent as the project evolves.
Benesch has many broad relationships with many of its health care clients and, as a result, routinely provides other, non-health care, legal services to these clients. As a full service law firm, we have established practice groups with significant experience in the areas of Corporate & Securities, Construction, Compensation & Benefits, Banking & Finance, Intellectual Property, Data Privacy & Cybersecurity, Labor & Employment, Public Law, Real Estate & Environmental, Litigation and Tax. The Benesch Healthcare+ routinely works in tandem with members of these practice groups and others to ensure that our clients in the health care industry are receiving all the legal services they need or desire.
Our Benesch Healthcare+ and Corporate & Securities Practice Groups have handled major merger and acquisition (“M&A”) transactions including hospitals, health care systems and other enterprises in the health care space. We recognize the importance of a thorough and detailed diligence process in order to protect the interests of our clients. We have experience in efficiently distilling the results of our diligence review to key risk areas and providing management with a written summary our findings, which identifies risks and provides recommendations to mitigate any identified risks either pre-closing, in the transaction documents or through the post-closing integration process.
The core of our M&A practice is drafting and negotiating definitive acquisition and affiliation agreements and ancillary instruments. We pride ourselves in understanding what is “market” in terms of key deal points and, as necessary, will not hesitate to reach into our network of deal makers to confirm or refute positions taken by the selling entities. Having this “market” approach resource can help minimize protracted negotiations by quickly finding the acceptable middle ground.
As an experienced “deal shop,” Benesch adds value by understanding and addressing objectives quickly and efficiently, thus reinforcing a virtual ongoing “best practices” system. We believe that our ability to add value in these ways distinguishes Benesch from other firms. Every deal or arrangement in the health care space involves health care, real estate, intellectual property, technology and data security compliance consideration. Benesch’s core strengths in these areas, particularly in the privacy and data security areas, are key differentiators.
Attorneys within Benesch who deal in regulated industries, particularly members of the Benesch Healthcare+, have significant experience working with clients in identifying, targeting, preparing, submitting and negotiating (as necessary) State and Federal agency licenses, permits, filings, notices, appeals and other submissions related to health care operations, acquisitions and dispositions. We are comfortable working directly with regulators and are effective advocates where ambiguities may exist in certain regulatory schemes.