Transformative deals driven by private equity, novel business acquisitions and partnerships have sparked disruption, accelerated change, and created new competitive dynamics in healthcare. In today’s economic and regulatory environment, PwC’s global network of experienced M&A specialists assist clients on a range of transactions from smaller and mid-sized deals to the most complex transactions, including domestic and cross-border acquisitions, divestitures and spin-offs, capital events such as IPOs and debt offerings, bankruptcies and other business reorganizations. In addition, PwC Corporate Finance has the ability to provide investment banking services within the US to help finance and raise funds. For more information about trends in healthcare visit pwc.com/us/healthcaredeals.

Since our founding in 1913, Chapman and Cutler has focused on finance. We have represented market participants in virtually all aspects of banking, corporate finance and securities, and public finance transactions since our inception. Our firm consistently develops innovative and practical legal solutions for complex financial transactions. In addition to traditional financings, we are widely recognized for our experience in specific areas of finance, including leveraged leasing and other lease finance, asset securitization, and pooled investment products including defined portfolios and mutual funds. As part of our finance-oriented practice, Chapman represents creditors, indenture trustees and other financial market participants in bankruptcy proceedings, workouts and restructurings. In the area of public finance, our firm ranks among the leading law firms in the country serving as bond, underwriter’s and disclosure counsel. To complement Chapman’s finance focus, we have a substantial general corporate practice involving the representation of business entities in mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures, employee benefits, environmental, administrative and regulatory law, and litigation. We also provide personalized estate and gift planning, traditional probate legal services and sophisticated tax planning. We invite you to explore what makes us unique, our work with clients, our talented people, and our insight and perspective.

DLA Piper is a global law firm with lawyers located in more than 40 countries throughout the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific, positioning us to help clients with their legal needs around the world. Josh Kaye concentrates his practice in healthcare mergers and acquisitions and the development of innovative business models within the healthcare industry. Josh represents a number of private equity sponsors in their healthcare acquisitions and divestitures, and the on-going representation of their healthcare portfolio companies, having developed a niche in addressing healthcare driven transaction structure issues as well as healthcare regulatory due diligence issues. Josh advises clients in all aspects of federal and state healthcare regulatory matters, including anti-kickback, self-referral laws, state licensure, Corporate Practice of Medicine and Dentistry, Certificate of Need, insurance laws and HIPAA.

ECG Management Consultants, a Siemens Healthineers Company is a strategic consulting firm that is leading healthcare forward, using knowledge and expertise built over the course of nearly 50 years to help clients see clearly where healthcare is going and navigate toward success. ECG offers a broad range of strategic, financial, operational, and technology-related consulting services to healthcare providers nationwide. This depth of experience and dedication to the success of its customers is why ECG is consistently recognized in the annual Best in KLAS Software and Services reports. Working as trusted partners with hospitals, health systems, medical groups, academic medical centers, children’s hospitals, ambulatory surgery centers, and healthcare payers, the firm builds multidisciplinary teams to meet each client’s unique needs. As an independent affiliate, ECG collaborates with the Siemens Healthineers global Enterprise Services business, and its subject matter experts deliver smart counsel and pragmatic solutions to the challenges confronting healthcare providers. ECG has offices in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Minneapolis, San Diego, Seattle, St. Louis, and Washington, DC.

Greenberg Traurig, LLP is an international, multi-practice law firm with more than 2,000 attorneys across 38 offices in the United States, Latin America, Europe, Asia and the Middle East. GT’s Restructuring & Bankruptcy Practice provides clients with the insight and knowledge that come with decades of advisory and litigation experience. The team handles highly complex issues that arise in reorganizations, restructurings, workouts, liquidations, and distressed acquisitions and sales, both domestically and in cross-border proceedings. We offer clients a broad multidisciplinary approach, supported by a nationally recognized practice that has been engaged in many of the key complex restructurings of our time. For more information, please visit www.gtlaw.com.

Troutman Pepper is a national law firm with more than 1,200 attorneys strategically located in 23 U.S. cities. The firm’s litigation, transactional, and regulatory practices advise a diverse client base, from start-ups to multinational enterprises. The firm’s litigation, transactional, and regulatory practices advise a diverse client base, from start-ups to multinational enterprises. The firm provides sophisticated legal solutions to clients’ most pressing business challenges, with depth across industry sectors, including construction, energy, finance, health sciences, insurance, private equity, real estate, and technology, among others.Health sciences is a core practice at Troutman Pepper. Our team includes more than 170 attorneys who represent clients such as innovative biotech, pharmaceutical and medical device developers and manufacturers; physicians, hospitals and other health care providers; health insurers and other payors; and a wide range of members of the health care supply chain. We regularly assist clients with the structuring and completing transformative business combinations and alliances. We combine our deep health care regulatory experience — including fraud and abuse, Stark, licensing and reimbursement — with significant corporate, M&A, and transactional capabilities to create efficiency in helping clients achieve their optimal outcomes.

Dykema is a leading national law firm, serving business entities worldwide on a wide range of complex business issues. Our lawyers deliver outstanding results, unparalleled service and exceptional value in every engagement. For more information, please visit www.dykema.com.

The healthcare consolidation landscape is changing, and the future belongs to M&A teams that can inject actual business value into their deals, both pre- and post-close. ClearDeal is a Transaction Visibility Platform that empowers deal teams with speed and clarity before closing day and streamlined integration after. Turning paper into perception, our blended intelligence-powered visibility solution helps both buy and sell side see the gist of the deal without wading through an ocean of documents. Deal teams constantly tell us, “we just don’t know what we have,” and precious billable hours of attorneys and consultants are lost to simply gaining full visibility on what has been acquired or is about to be. But ClearDeal makes every part of the deal transparent – from earnouts to assignability to compensation to real estate. Every clause is clear with ClearDeal. Learn more at https://getcleardeal.com and schedule your demo today.

With experience dating back to the enactment of Medicare, Waller is recognized as one of the nation’s largest healthcare law firms with more than 190 experienced attorneys across various practice groups supporting healthcare organizations throughout the country. We help tax-exempt and investor-owned healthcare organizations meet strategic objectives and respond to operational challenges. Waller is a trusted advisor to many of the nation’s largest healthcare providers, and we have played a significant role in shaping the industry and markets our clients serve. Depth, experience, insight and acumen make Waller a valued strategic partner in the healthcare industry.