Lauren B. Huddleston
Lauren Huddleston represents companies and private equity firms and their portfolio companies in the healthcare industry in corporate and transactional matters. Her experience includes growth capital investments, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, carve-out transactions and leveraged buyouts, including the largest U.S. leveraged buyout announced in 2015.
Prior to joining Bass, Berry & Sims, Lauren was an associate at Moore & Van Allen PLLC and at Alston & Bird LLP in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Memberships
American Health Law Association (AHLA)
Junior League of Nashville
Representative Experience
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Representation of Humana Innovation Enterprises Inc. (affiliated with Humana Inc.) in its minority joint venture investment in Summit Medical Group, East Tennessee’s largest primary care organization.
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Representation of Regent Surgical Health, an ambulatory surgery center management and development company, in its strategic investment from TowerBrook Capital Partners L.P., an international investment management firm, and Ascension Capital, an investment affiliate of Ascension.
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Representation of Healthcare Bluebook in its acquisition of the Quality division of Quantros, Inc., a leading provider of quality analytics software for healthcare providers and payors. Healthcare Bluebook uses industry-leading objective quality and price data and claims-driven ROI reporting to deliver healthcare value insights to consumers, employers, and healthcare providers and payors. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
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Representation of HigherDOSE, a growth stage wellness product and services company, as outside general counsel. We advise the company on corporate entity structure; equity incentives; intellectual property protection; data privacy, including CCPA and GDPR compliance; FDA compliance; commercial contracts; waivers; product safety and advertising matters.
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Representation of QualDerm Partners, a company that creates market-leading dermatology practice partnerships through affiliations and de novo development, in its acquisition of SkinMD, PLLC, a Nashville-based dermatology practice
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Representation of HCA Healthcare (NYSE: HCA), one of the nation’s leading healthcare providers, in its acquisition of Valify, a healthcare cost management technology platform
Additional Experience
Additional representative experience (prior to joining Bass, Berry & Sims PLC
- $7.4 billion acquisition of an information management system provider by multinational private equity firm
- Sale of private equity-backed endoscopic ambulatory surgery center management company to private equity firm
- Recapitalization of veterinary hospital network by middle-market private equity firm
- Sale of a patient education media company by middle-market private equity firm to strategic buyer
- Recapitalization of private equity-backed national SaaS solutions provider serving home health and hospice markets
- Investment in international enterprise IT solutions company by multinational private equity firm
- Acquisition of telecommunications infrastructure services companies by middle-market private equity firm
- Sale of fiber-based communications network provider to strategic buyer with private equity sponsor and management rollover
- $600 million auction process for sale of private equity-backed fiber network provider to strategic buyer
- Acquisition of digital promotions development firm serving large consumer brands and retailers by middle-market private equity firm
- Recapitalization of exclusive peer-to-peer network and knowledge exchange platform by middle-market private equity firm
Publications
Media Mentions & Firm News
Additional News & Insights
Publications
- “Defining the Administration of Anesthesia: Just the Push of a Plunger?” Wake Forest Law Review, Vol. 50, No. 2, 2015 (January 22, 2015)
- “A Troubling Definition of the ‘Administration”’of Anesthesia,” Regional Anesthesia & Pain Medicine, Co-author (January 2015)
Accolades
Best Lawyers: Ones To Watch — Health Care Law (2022)
Wake Forest Law Review — Articles Editor