Robert A. Hamill

• Mergers & Acquisitions
• Hospital & Physician Transactions
• Physician Contracting and Alignment
• General Business Transactions & Services
• Fraud and Abuse Counsel
• Hospital & Health System Counsel
• Private Equity

University of South Carolina, B.A., with honors - 2007

Charleston School of Law, J.D., with honors - 2011

• South Carolina - 2011
• North Carolina - 2012

• American Health Law Association
• North Carolina Bar Association
• South Carolina Bar Association
• North Carolina Society of Healthcare Attorneys
• American Bar Association

• Best Lawyers in America: Ones to Watch – 2024-2025
• Listed in North Carolina Super Lawyers Rising Stars – 2023

• Lead counsel in hospital and health system mergers and acquisition transactions involving tax-exempt, for-profit and governmental hospitals.
• Lead counsel in multiple hospital joint venture transactions.
• Lead counsel for private equity-backed buyers in multiple stock and asset acquisitions.
• Lead counsel representing a non-profit health system in the acquisition of a majority interest in a joint venture with an orthopedic and sports medicine provider, including an orthopedic medical practice, two ambulatory surgery centers, cardiac catheterization lab, recovery suites and an orthopedic home health agency.
• Lead counsel for private equity-backed provider of health care staffing services in the acquisition of a provider of educational staffing services.
• Lead counsel representing anesthesia practice and affiliated management company in sale to private-equity-backed buyer.
• Lead counsel representing an orthopedic physician practice and affiliated ambulatory surgery centers in a sale of a majority interest to a private equity-backed health services organization.
• Lead counsel for a regional non-profit health system that merged with another non-profit health system in a transaction where our client was the “surviving” entity.
• Lead counsel for a private equity-backed health care marketing and communications agency in the acquisition of another science-centered health communication company in a stock purchase transaction.
• Lead counsel for a non-profit health system in the sale of a retail pharmacy business.
• Lead counsel for a private equity-backed health care marketing and communications agency in the acquisition of another science-centered health communication company in a stock purchase transaction.
• Lead for a non-profit health system in the sale of a retail pharmacy business.
• Representation of sellers in $5 billion sale of a health system.
• Representation of health systems in multiple member substitution transactions.
• Representation of a large behavioral health provider in a merger transaction.
• Representation of private-equity-backed radiation oncology provider in multiple acquisitions and joint venture transactions.
• Representation of a health system in the sale of a group purchasing organization.
• Representation of a health system in the sale of its retail pharmacy business.
• Representation of a health system in the acquisition of an air ambulance provider from a private equity seller in an auction transaction.
• Representation of sellers of dialysis facilities to a private-equity-backed buyer.
• Representation of hospitals in ambulatory surgery center syndication transactions.
• Representation of a hospital system in the sale of membership interest in a clinical laboratory services joint venture.