Brian Browder is a partner at Waller Lansden and practices in the areas of mergers and acquisitions and corporate law, primarily in the healthcare industry. Mr. Browder chairs Waller Lansden’s healthcare department, a multidisciplinary team of more than 60 healthcare attorneys representing investor-owned and tax-exempt healthcare providers throughout the United States. In 2011, Mr. Browder was recognized for his health law experience in Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business. In 2009 he was honored in Nightingale’s Healthcare News in the publication’s list of Outstanding Young Healthcare Lawyers for his extensive experience in a diverse array of complex corporate transactions, including acquisitions, dispositions and joint ventures; leveraged/management buyouts; venture capital and private equity investments. In addition, Mr. Browder assists debtors, stalking horse bidders and credit bidders in connection with acquisitions of – as well as dispositions by – financially distressed or insolvent healthcare companies.
Mr. Browder’s healthcare experience includes providing counsel to publicly traded and privately held companies as well as tax-exempt healthcare systems and governmental providers. He recently represented LifePoint Hospitals, Inc. in the formation of Duke LifePoint Healthcare, an innovative joint venture with Duke University Health System to build a network of community hospitals in North Carolina and surrounding areas. In September 2010, he represented LifePoint Hospitals, Inc. in connection with the $145 million acquisition of Sumner Regional Medical Center, a four-hospital, tax exempt healthcare system that filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. He advised an investor-owned behavioral healthcare company in connection with its acquisition of a 90-bed facility pursuant to a previously confirmed plan of reorganization and Section 363 of the bankruptcy code. Other representative engagements of investor-owned healthcare providers include providing counsel in the $400 million acquisition of a dental practice management company in a transaction financed through a combination of private equity, senior debt and mezzanine financing and advising the management team of a healthcare services company in a $40 million private equity raise.
In the tax-exempt healthcare sector, Mr. Browder assisted a newly formed tax-exempt corporation in acquiring a 25-bed critical access hospital in Tennessee. Representing a state medical college, Mr. Browder negotiated a 50-year academic affiliation agreement with an investor-owned hospital company that established a long-term solution for the location of the college’s residency program. He assisted a county-owned medical center in Mississippi in the acquisition of a hospital from an investor-owned hospital system and advised a municipal hospital district in its joint venture with an investor-owned hospital company that resulted in the construction of a new hospital and the formation of a nonprofit organization focused on general health activities for residents in the region.
Mr. Browder’s healthcare experience also includes acquisitions, dispositions and joint ventures involving dialysis clinics, ambulatory surgery centers, home health agencies, diagnostic laboratory services, sleep laboratories, managed care plans, practice management companies, nursing homes, assisted living facilities, continuing care retirement communities and rehabilitation hospitals.
Mr. Browder lectures frequently on transactional issues such as due diligence in healthcare transactions, buy-sell agreements, asset purchase agreements and stock purchase agreements. He also has spoken on the topic of ethics for transactional lawyers. Additionally, Mr. Browder has authored numerous articles on health law topics.
Education
J.D., Vanderbilt University, 1994
B.S.B.A., Accounting, Georgetown University, 1991
Clerkships and Previous Affiliations
Burch, Porter & Johnson, PLLC in Memphis, Tennessee, 1994-97
Professional Activities
Member, Nashville, Tennessee and American Bar Associations
Member, American Bar Association; Business Law, Health Law and Young Lawyers Sections
Member, Healthcare Finance Management Association
Member, American Health Lawyers Association
Civic and Other Activities
Member, Board of Directors, Harpeth Youth Soccer Association
