Healthcare Private Equity

Our results-oriented, business-minded deal attorneys work seamlessly with our nationally ranked healthcare regulatory attorneys to help private equity clients and their portfolio companies achieve their strategic goals. Clients rely on our deep understanding of healthcare law and our significant experience navigating the unique regulatory and business environment of the healthcare industry.

Since 2015, we have served as deal counsel in more than 150 private equity related transactions in the healthcare industry. We regularly assist private equity firms and their healthcare portfolio companies in structuring, negotiating and executing acquisitions and financings and in dispositions of healthcare investments through sales, recapitalizations and public offerings. Private equity firms utilize our comprehensive due diligence of healthcare targets to help uncover and assess key issues and regulatory and compliance risks associated with an investment and rely on the sophisticated guidance of our healthcare regulatory and compliance and investigations counsel. In addition, we have extensive experience representing private equity funds providing senior and subordinate credit facilities in connection with their investments, as well as negotiating credit facilities on behalf of sponsors, including acquisition and capital call facilities.

We advise investors, portfolio companies and management teams in the following:

  • Acquisitions and exits including:
    • Platform and add-on acquisitions
    • Due diligence and risk analysis
    • Leveraged dividends and recapitalizations
    • Leveraged buyouts
    • Going private transactions
    • Sponsor-sponsor transactions
    • Initial public offerings and exit transaction services and preparation
    • Special Purpose Acquisitions Companies (SPACs)/de-SPACs
    • Management team representation and executive compensation matters
  • Healthcare regulatory and operations
  • Healthcare compliance and investigations
  • Financing including minority interest transactions and mezzanine and senior financings

We also know that our private equity clients want true partners who offer more than legal advice. At the intersection of healthcare and private equity, we often connect sponsors with companies or successful executives seeking investment. To that end, we invite managing directors and executive management teams to discuss trends and foster opportunities at our annual Health Care Investors Conference co-hosted with Deloitte. Our attorneys are also active in the Association for Corporate Growth, the Healthcare Private Equity Association (HCPEA), the Nashville Health Care Council and other organizations.

Our healthcare attorneys encompass the multitude of legal specialties necessary to service one of the largest, most highly regulated industries in the United States. We bring our multidisciplinary, team approach to our representation of the following sectors and facilities:

  • Academic medical centers
  • Addiction treatment
  • Ambulatory surgery centers
  • Anesthesiology
  • Behavioral health
  • Cancer therapy and oncology
  • Cardiovascular
  • Clinical laboratories
  • Dentistry
  • Dermatology
  • Diagnostic imaging
  • Eye care
  • Gastrointestinal (GI)
  • Health plans, managed care companies and benefit management companies
  • Health population management
  • Healthcare Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs)
  • Healthcare information technology
  • Home health
  • Hospice
  • Hospitals and health systems
  • Life sciences
  • Managed care
  • Medical device
  • Nonprofit providers
  • Orthotics and prosthetics
  • Pharmaceuticals and pharmacies
  • Physician practices, outsourced physician services and management companies
  • Primary care
  • Radiology
  • Revenue cycle management
  • Senior housing and long-term care
  • Specialty pharmacy and pharmaceuticals
  • Telemedicine
  • Urgent and retail care clinics
  • Wellness and disease management
  • Women’s care
  • Representation of Prodigo Solutions, Inc., a supply chain and data enablement technology company, in its sale to Global Healthcare Exchange, a healthcare business and data automation company. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

    We represented Prodigo Solutions, Inc., a supply chain and data enablement technology company, in its sale to Global Healthcare Exchange,...
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    Client Type: Private Company
  • Representation of  HealthTrust Purchasing Group, a leading Group Purchasing Organization (GPO) and supply chain performance company for healthcare, in its acquisition of Expansion, LLC, an exclusive AdvantageTrust partner and technology company that helps alternate care health and human service providers; Purchase Clinic, LLC, an online contract marketplace that helps you save on your medical/surgical and non-medical supplies; and Plus MSO, LLC, a Third Party Administrator services, offerings claims management, managed care, and risk control solution. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

    We represented HealthTrust Purchasing Group, a leading Group Purchasing Organization (GPO) and supply chain performance company for healthcare, in its...
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    Client Type: Private Company
  • Served as physician counsel to United Digestive Holdings, a portfolio company of Frazier Growth Buyout and a gastrointestinal practice, in its sale to Kohlberg & Company, a leading private equity firm headquartered in New York. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

    We served as physician counsel to United Digestive Holdings, a portfolio company of Frazier Growth Buyout, in its sale to...
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    Client Type: Private Company
  • Representation of  Diversicare, a provider of person-centered care to individuals with rehabilitation and long-term care needs, in its sale of 4 skilled nursing facilities in Alabama to Venza Care Management, Inc., a provider of expert-led care through personalized programming and rehabilitation. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

    We represented Diversicare, a provider of person-centered care to individuals with rehabilitation and long-term care needs, in its sale of...
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    Client Type: Private Company
  • Representation of Health Insight Capital, a subsidiary of Hospital Corporation of America (HCA), in its investment in Experity, inc., a software and services company for on-demand healthcare. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

    We represented Health Insight Capital, a subsidiary of Hospital Corporation of America (HCA), in its investment in Experity, inc., a...
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  • Representation of Diversicare, a provider of person-centered care to individuals with rehabilitation and long-term care needs, in its sale of eight skilled nursing facilities in Tennessee, Ohio and Indiana to Exceptional Living Centers, Inc., a provider of professional health care management services throughout the United States. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

    We represented Diversicare, a provider of person-centered care to individuals with rehabilitation and long-term care needs, in its sale of...
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    Client Type: Private Company
  • Representation of Diversicare, a provider of person-centered care to individuals with rehabilitation and long-term care needs, in its sale of eight skilled nursing facilities in Texas to Creative Solutions in Healthcare, Inc., Texas’ largest independent owner and operator in long term care. Term of the transaction were not disclosed.

    We represented Diversicare, a provider of person-centered care to individuals with rehabilitation and long-term care needs, in its sale of...
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    Client Type: Private Company
  • Representation of Complete Health Partners, a Pharos Capital portfolio company and a physician-driven, technology-enabled primary care practice, in its acquisition of substantially all of the assets of Norwood Clinic, a multispecialty medical group practice. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

    We represented Complete Health Partners, a Pharos Capital portfolio company and a physician-driven, technology-enabled primary care practice, in its acquisition...
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    Client Type: Private Company
  • Represented a sponsor-backed home healthcare company in obtaining senior secured credit facilities.

    We represented a sponsor-backed home healthcare company in obtaining senior secured credit facilities.
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    Client Type: Private Company
  • Representation of SENTA partners, a leading community of the finest ENT and Allergy/Immunology specialists in the Southern region, in its acquisition of Reston Ear Nose and Throat, P.C., a leading adult and pediatric otolaryngology center in Northern Virginia. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

    We represented SENTA partners, a leading community of the finest ENT and Allergy/Immunology specialists in the Southern region, in its...
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