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Healthcare
Waller Lansden is the go-to firm for many of the most active companies in healthcare mergers and acquisitions. Since January 2007, we have provided counsel in healthcare mergers and acquisitions with an aggregate value of more than $3 billion. Our experience dates back more than 40 years to the start of the investor-owned hospital industry, and we have remained closely identified with the continuing growth of the healthcare industry. We have grown with—and often helped to develop—the markets we serve.
Recognized as one of the nation's largest health law firms by Modern Healthcare magazine, Waller Lansden has earned a reputation throughout the country for creative insight and professional commitment. We represent many of the largest public and private healthcare companies operating throughout the United States, as well as governmental and not-for-profit hospitals and systems throughout the country.
Waller Lansden's healthcare mergers and acquisitions practice combines vast industry experience with a thorough understanding of complex regulatory issues. With more than 100 attorneys who focus either exclusively on the healthcare industry or on specific aspects of the law that frequently impact the industry, we are uniquely qualified to help our clients achieve their business goals. We tailor our practice group structure to our market-leading clients and their multidisciplinary needs, and this multi-disciplinary approach ensures comprehensive representation for our healthcare clients in every facet of their business and operations.
We represent acquirors, targets, sellers, financial advisors, institutional investors and special committees in both negotiated and contested transactions. We also represent funds and investor groups that are frequent participants in securities and M&A transactions. Our attorneys have the wide range of experience needed to represent companies in complex business transactions, and we have the resources to provide interdisciplinary coverage of specialized aspects of each deal. We frequently represent our clients in capital market or other financing arrangements related to mergers and acquisitions.
Waller Lansden’s healthcare mergers and acquisitions practice includes:
- Mergers
- Asset purchases and sales
- Securities purchases and sales (stock, partnership interests, LLC interests)
- LLC interest
- Roll-ups
- Corporate governance advice
- Proxy contests
- Joint ventures
- Recapitalizations, redomestications, spin-offs and split-offs
- Divestitures and unwinds
- Regulatory and compliance matters, such as antitrust, securities, healthcare, tax, ERISA/executive compensation, banking, insurance, franchising, labor and employment, intellectual property, and environmental issues
- Going-private transactions
- Leveraged and management buyouts
- Tender offers
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