George Bishop is a partner at Waller Lansden where he has served as Chairman and a member of the Executive Committee. He has extensive experience in mergers and acquisitions, particularly transactions involving hospitals, proprietary hospital companies and other healthcare facilities. His practice also includes securities offerings and the formation of joint ventures, especially syndications of healthcare facilities and venture capital financings. Mr. Bishop also has extensive knowledge of antitrust laws and other regulatory issues relating to the healthcare industry. Having traveled abroad on several healthcare trade missions, he has advised the United Kingdom's Department of Health in conjunction with the possible revisions to the National Health Service.
Mr. Bishop is recognized nationally for his vast experience with the sale and acquisition of hospitals, hospital systems and other healthcare facilities, especially transactions involving investor-owned healthcare companies. He has been listed in The Best Lawyers in America (Woodward White, Inc.) for his work in corporate law, healthcare law and mergers and acquisitions law. He is highly ranked by America's Leading Business Lawyers (Chambers & Partners) in the Corporate/Mergers and Acquisitions category. Mr. Bishop was named one of the "101 Best Lawyers in Tennessee" by Business Tennessee, and the Nashville Business Journal recognized his experience in its "Best of the Bar" and "Healthcare 100" listings. He served as a Fellow of the Health Care Solutions Group, a think/action "tank" located in Nashville.
Mr. Bishop was the founder and initial Chairman of the Health Law Section of the Tennessee Bar Association. He also served as the initial Chairman of the Health Law Committee of the Nashville Bar Association. Mr. Bishop has served on the Antitrust Section Task Force on Hospital Mergers for the American Bar Association and on the National Membership Committee of the American Health Lawyers Association. He currently serves as a member of the Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility of the Tennessee Bar Association.
Education
J.D., highest honors, University of Tennessee, 1975
Order of the Coif
Outstanding Graduate of the Year, 1975-1976
Member, National Moot Court Team, 1974, 1975
Assistant Editor, Tennessee Law Review
Member, Phi Kappa Phi
M.A., Theology, University of Oxford, 1973
B.A., cum laude, The University of the South, 1970
Member, Omicron Delta Kappa, Blue Key and Red Ribbon honor societies
Professional Activities
Listed in Best Lawyers in America (Woodward White Inc.) for more than ten years
Currently listed in America's Leading Business Lawyers (Chambers & Partners)
Currently listed in "101 Best Lawyers in Tennessee" by Business Tennessee
Member, Nashville Bar Association, for which he served as the initial Chairman of the Health Law Committee in 1989
Member, Tennessee Bar Association, for which he served as the Founder and initial Chairman of the Health Law Section in 1989 and 1990
Former Member, Antitrust Section Task Force on Hospital Mergers of the American Bar Association
Former Member, National Membership Committee of the National Health Lawyers Association
Member, Tennessee Bar Association Ethics and Professional Responsibility Committee
Participant on several international healthcare trade missions to Europe sponsored by the Nashville Health Care Council and the Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce
Civic and Other Activities
Member, Downtown Rotary Club of Nashville
Member, Executive Board of the Middle Tennessee Council of the Boy Scouts of America
Former President, Board of Directors of the DuBose Conference Center, a charitable organization affiliated with the Episcopal Church
Former President, Second Harvest Food Bank of Middle Tennessee
Former Member, Board of Directors of the Nashville Health Care Council
Former Member, Board of Directors of the Nashville Area Habitat for Humanity
Former Member, Board of Directors of American Lung Association of Tennessee
