William (Bill) H. Thompson

About William

Bill Thompson concentrates his practice on complex transactional matters, assisting clients with a wide range of deal structures. With dedicated industry knowledge to provide practical solutions to clients’ complex challenges, Bill serves as a trusted partner with the experience and drive necessary to get the deal done. Working alongside his clients nationwide, which include hospitals, health systems, academic medical centers and children's hospitals, he embraces the opportunity to navigate complex transactions.

Bill’s experience includes counseling clients through a number of complex transactional arrangements, such as mergers and acquisitions, contractual arrangements and joint ventures. He has the proven experience in strategically and efficiently advising his clients, whether they are looking to sell a hospital, acquire a physician practice or create a clinically integrated network. Additionally, Bill advises clients on alternative risk financing vehicles, including captive insurance companies, with a focus on offshore companies.

Bill currently serves as Chairman of the Firm, having previously served as Managing Partner for 10 years. He is actively involved within the legal community as a member of the American Health Law Association and the American Bar Association, where he is a member of the Health Law Section. Additionally, Bill sits on the Advisory Council for the Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health. In his free time, Bill is an avid polo player.

Representative Transactions Experience

Lead counsel involving a comprehensive management services agreement between a real estate/private debt alternative investment company and a health system to manage the health system’s post-acute services.
Lead and regulatory counsel for the joint venture between a health system and orthopedic group of two separately located ambulatory surgery centers, one existing center and the other a new development.
Support counsel where a hospital system transferred its physician group assets to a non-profit health system and redeemed its interest in a joint venture with the non-profit health system.
Lead counsel for a health system in a joint venture formation for a jointly owned linear accelerator.
Lead counsel for an academic medical center in the buyout of a minority interest in a radiation oncology center joint venture.
Lead counsel for a children’s hospital in the transfer of employment of 35 pediatric anesthesiologists from a national medical group of physicians and advanced practice providers to our client.
Supporting counsel to a health system for a joint venture which provided radiology services. Our client purchased another entity’s interest in the joint venture to become the sole owner.