Healthcare
Bilzin Sumberg works with a broad range of health care clients to navigate the complex and constantly evolving health care industry. The firm represents large, regional healthcare systems, health care practice groups and individual physicians on a variety of matters, including mergers and acquisitions (M&A), joint ventures, real estate development and leasing, land use and zoning, restructuring and finance, tax advice, and healthcare-related litigation. The firm also advises individual doctors and doctor groups on employment agreements, non-competition agreements, severance agreements and other similar types of contractual relationships.
EXPERIENCE
Representation of major tax-exempt hospital system in connection with an Internal Revenue Service examination of its federal income tax returns. The coordinated four-year examination of the organization, which operated a group of hospitals and related out-patient facilities, presented many challengi...
Counsel to a Colombia-based healthcare and pharmaceutical company on its mergerwitha special purpose acquisition company, with the post-mergerentity valued at approximately $1.3 billion.
Represented a lender in its $1 billion senior mortgage participation and mezzanine loan to a nursing home and healthcare facilities company.
Successful representation of managed health care companies and large financial institutions against claims for benefits brought under ERISA by former employees, including a Fortune 100 company facing potential exposure in excess of $1 billion in mass litigation.
Defense of national health care insurance company against series of billion dollar class actions filed by doctors and other health care providers concerning billing practices.
Representation of Leon Medical Centers Health Plans, Inc. ("LMCHP"), and its stockholders in connection with the acquisition by HealthSpring, Inc. (NYSE: HC), of all of the outstanding capital stock of privately-held LMCHP for $405 million in cash and HealthSpring stock. We also negotiated a 15-year...
INSIGHTS
Anthony De Yurre moderates The Synergy of Miami’s Mixed-Use and Healthcare Landscape panel at the Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce 2024 Developers Forum. The panel discusses ground-breaking, innovative, and large-scale transformative projects in the mixed-use and healthcare sector.
On November 5, 2021, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (“OSHA”) issued an emergency temporary standard (“ETS”) that implemented a “vaccinate-or-test” mandate for large, private employers. The ETS spurred a flurry of lawsuits in federal courts natio...
On February 1st, more than 40 U.S. business groups requested that the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) “quickly issue guidance clarifying the extent to which employers may offer employees incentives to vaccinate without running afoul of the Americans With Disabilities Act [A...
As if the recent uptick in national COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations were not enough to tax an already beleaguered health system, on October 28, 2020, three federal agencies issued a cybersecurity Joint Advisory warning of a credible threat of “increased and imminent cybercrime” targe...
Albert E. Dotson Jr. moderated a panel of baptist health professionals for an exclusive corporate briefing on the COVID-19 outbreak.
Lori Lustrin and Jake M. Greenberg co-authored an article entitled, "A Budding Opportunity—Why the CBD Industry Requires Regulation", for Bloomberg Law.
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