J. Reginald Hill

Partner

615-850-8473
J. Reginald Hill

Nashville City Center
511 Union Street
Suite 2700
Nashville, TN 37219

Service Areas

Industry Experience

  • Public and private healthcare companies, including hospitals and outpatient facilities
  • Venture capital firms

Reggie Hill is a partner at Waller Lansden. His practice focuses on the healthcare industry and his experience in the areas of mergers and acquisitions, securities, venture capital financing and health law is both extensive and well-known.

Mr. Hill represented two outpatient surgery center companies in their initial public offerings; represented a publicly traded surgery center company in its acquisition by a publicly traded company; and represented a publicly traded company in the spin-off of its managed care subsidiary as a separate public company, and then in its subsequent acquisition by a third publicly traded company. Mr. Hill also has represented a publicly traded surgery center company in its acquisition by a private equity firm.

Mr. Hill represents hospital companies in acquisitions and divestitures of hospitals, as well as in joint ventures with other providers of healthcare services, including physicians and physician groups. Mr. Hill also has represented healthcare companies in hundreds of transactions, including the development, syndication, acquisition and divestiture of facilities.

In addition, Mr. Hill advises Boards of Directors on corporate governance matters, including compliance with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. He also provides counsel to individuals and companies in investments at all stages of the investment cycle.

Mr. Hill has been recognized in The Best Lawyers in America® (Woodward White Inc.) since 1999 for his work in corporate law, healthcare law and mergers and acquisitions law. He also has been listed in America's Leading Lawyers for Business® (Chambers & Partners) since 2003. Mr. Hill also has been recognized in the Nashville Business Journal’s “Healthcare 100,” “Best of the Bar” and “Healthcare Heroes,” and Mid-South Super Lawyers.


Education

  • J.D., Order of the Coif, University of Tennessee, 1980
    • Member, National Moot Court Team, 1979
    • Member, Tennessee Moot Court Board, 1979 and 1980
    • Member, Phi Kappa Phi and Phi Delta Phi
  • B.S., University of Tennessee at Martin, 1977

Clerkships and Previous Affiliations

  • Law Clerk to the Honorable Robert L. Taylor, U.S. District Judge, Eastern District of Tennessee, 1980-82

Professional Activities

  • Former Co-Chairman of the firm and head of the firm’s business transactions practice and healthcare industry practice
  • Member, Nashville Bar Association and its Health Law Committee
  • Member, Tennessee Bar Association and its Health Law Section
  • Member, American Bar Association and its Business Law and Health Law Sections
  • Member, American Health Lawyers Associations and its Fraud and Abuse, Hospitals and Health Systems, and Business Law and Governance Practice Groups
  • Seminar speaker on corporate, venture capital and health law topics for local, state and national seminars, including the following:
    • Co-Founder and Speaker, Tennessee Bar Association’s Health Law Section Annual Seminar
    • Program Co-Chair, “Venture Capital Financing” (Nashville, Tenn.)
    • Program Co-Chair and Speaker, “Mid-Market Healthcare M&A Conference” (Nashville, Tenn.)
    • Speaker, “Healthcare Transactions Conference” (Chicago)
    • Speaker, Tennessee Hospital Association Annual Meeting
    • Panelist, “The Federal State in Quality” (Washington, DC)
    • Speaker, American Health Lawyers Association Annual Meeting Business Law and Governance Practice Group (San Francisco)
    • Speaker, PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLP, Healthcare Corporate Developments Roundtable (Laguna Niguel, Calif.)
    • Speaker, The Advisory Board Company, “Pricing Practice Acquisitions” Web Conference
    • Speaker, “Healthcare Deal Making Summit” (Nashville, Tenn.)
  • Co-Author, “10 Outsourcing Myths That Raise Your Risk” (hfm magazine)
  • Co-Author, “7 Keys to Successful Outsourcing” (Outpatient Surgery Magazine)
  • Co-Author, “2006 Hospital Outsourcing Trends in Clinical Services” (HealthLeaders Magazine)
  • Co-Author, "Freestanding Outpatient Facilities and Services," a chapter in a health law series entitled Facilities and Transactions
  • Member, American Health Lawyers Association and its Quality Council

Civic and Other Activities

  • Member, Board of Directors of the Minnie Pearl Cancer Foundation and Former Chairman of Annual Giving Campaign
  • Member, Development Council of the University of Tennessee
  • Member, Board of Trustees of Watkins College of Art and Design
  • Volunteer Legal Advisor, United Cerebral Palsy of Middle Tennessee
  • Member, University of Tennessee Development Council
  • Member, Dean’s Circle, University of Tennessee College of Law
  • Cabinet Member, Alexis de Tocqueville Society of United Way of Metropolitan Nashville
  • Former Member, Board of Directors of YMCA Urban Services Center
  • Former Member, Board of Directors of Downtown Clinic for the Homeless