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Healthcare
Waller Lansden is one of the country’s leading law firms in the area of dental practice management. Our experience covers a wide range of legal issues, including:
- Implementing management company structures, and drafting management agreements and other contracts
- State and federal regulatory compliance, including reimbursement, corporate practice, licensing, HIPAA, Red Flag Rules and advertising
- Federal and state Medicaid enforcement actions and investigations
- Dental board investigations and enforcement actions
- Mergers, acquisitions and divestitures of hundreds of dental practices
- Acquisitions and sales of dental practice management companies involving financial and strategic buyers
- Acquisition of distressed assets
- Private equity transactions, including management equity and employment arrangements
- IPOs and other public offerings
- Securities law reporting and compliance
- Corporate governance and advising Boards of Directors
- Commercial finance transactions, including debt financing and securitization
- Executive compensation and employment agreements
- Employee benefits, including multiple employer welfare arrangements
- Employment issues and compliance
- Enforcement of covenants not to compete
- Commercial litigation and contract disputes
- Federal and state tax issues
- Protecting trademarks, logos and copyrights
- Preparing and reviewing compliance plans
Representative Experience
For nearly 20 years, we have advised numerous dental groups and dental practice management companies operating throughout the United States – from startups to public companies. The following are examples of how our attorneys have helped dental companies achieve results:
- Served as outside general counsel for a NYSE-listed dental practice management company for over 12 years, including its formation, IPO, SEC reporting, acquisitions and regulatory compliance.
- Currently advise several dental practice management companies on a variety of legal issues
- Served as lead counsel in the $430 million asset acquisition of a dental practice management company, and related private equity funding
- Advised publicly-held dental practice management company in $36 million acquisition of its publicly-held competitor.
- Represented the buyer of assets of a bankrupt dental practice management company
- Represented a private equity fund in its recapitalization of a dental practice management company
- Currently representing dental practice management company in sale to a private equity fund
- Represented dental practice management companies in negotiating $100 million-plus credit facilities with commercial lenders
- Represented several dental practice management companies in preparing management services agreements, employment agreements, buy-sell agreements and other legal documents required to implement the companies’ business model in multiple states
- Advising national dental practice management company in multi-state and federal Medicaid investigation and enforcement action
- Advising large dental group in state Medicaid investigation
- Represented dental practice management company in review of advertising program for affiliated dental practices for compliance with state dental advertising regulations in multiple states
- Represented dental practice management company in review of economic arrangements between company and affiliated dental practices for compliance with corporate practice and fee-splitting laws in multiple states
- Represented dental practice management company in enrollment of affiliated dental practices in state Medicaid programs in multiple states
- Represented dental practice management company and associated dentists in numerous investigations by state dental boards
- Represented dental practice management company in submission of a request to a state attorney general for an opinion concerning the lawfulness of company’s business model under the state dental practice laws
- Developed innovative structures to permit employee benefit plans to cover affiliated practices and dentists in compliance with ERISA, IRS and state requirements
- Represented large dental group in sale to a dental management company
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