Joseph M. Kahn

Attorney | Raleigh

Phone: (919) 447-4966
| Fax: (844) 801-5883

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About Joseph

Joe Kahn is a nationally recognized health care M&A attorney who advises hospitals and health systems on transformative transactions across the country.

He partners with executive teams and in‑house legal departments on strategically significant mergers, acquisitions and affiliations, working closely with clients to develop and execute transaction strategies that advance long‑term organizational goals. Joe represents both acquiring and selling parties and is frequently engaged in some of the largest and most complex health care transactions in the industry.

Joe’s practice includes:

  • Leading large-scale health care mergers and acquisitions, including a health system merger transaction valued at over $15 billion;
  • Advising buyers and sellers in complex health system transactions, including serving as lead counsel to multiple health systems in the sale of outreach laboratory service lines;
  • Structuring joint ventures and joint operating arrangements; and
  • Guiding health systems through strategic affiliations and reorganizations.

Joe serves as Managing Partner of the Firm’s Raleigh office and is a past Chair of the North Carolina Bar Association’s Health Law Section and a past President of the North Carolina Society of Health Care Attorneys. He is active in his community, having served as Chair of the Central and Western North Carolina Make-A-Wish Foundation and as a board member of Schoolhouse of Wonder.

EDUCATION

Washington University in St. Louis, B.A., with honors - 1997

University of South Carolina School of Law, J.D. - 2000

ADMITTED TO BAR

  • South Carolina - 2000
  • North Carolina - 2001

memberships

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

Experience

  • Served as lead counsel in numerous hospital affiliation transactions. Transactions have included acquisitions of non-profit hospitals by for-profit entities and the acquisition of community hospitals by academic medical centers and other health systems.
  • Served as lead counsel in multiple hospital joint venture transactions. In North Carolina, this representation has included formation of a multi-hospital cancer center joint venture; formation of a 131E-14 hospital ownership joint venture; multiple clinical service line joint ventures; and multiple joint ventures between hospitals and ancillary providers.
  • Assisted in development of accountable care organizations and clinically integrated networks.
  • Serve as lead counsel for multi-hospital joint venture shared services organization.
  • Served as lead counsel in multiple home health, behavioral health and hospice sale transactions.
  • Routinely advises hospitals, ambulatory surgery centers, long-term care facilities and specialty providers on certificate of need, licensure, certification, and survey matters, as applicable.
  • Routinely advises on provider-based rules for multiple hospital systems related to outpatient locations, ancillary services, urgent care centers and freestanding emergency departments.
  • Performed due diligence and prepared regulatory self-disclosures in conjunction with numerous transactions.
  • Advised and assisted hospitals in the formation and implementation of multiple physician affiliate organizations.
  • Drafted confidential private placement memoranda in connection with the development of ambulatory surgery centers.
  • Serve as outside general counsel for hospital and provider entities.

honors

  • Best Lawyers in America
  • Chambers USA | Healthcare, North Carolina – 2019, 2020, 2024, 2025
  • Listed in North Carolina Super Lawyers – 2018-2024

Civic Involvement

  • Schoolhouse of Wonder - Board of Directors
  • Make-a-Wish Foundation - Former Chairman of the Board of Directors, Central and Western North Carolina Chapters, 2010-2011

Representative Transactions Experience

  • Served as lead transaction and antitrust 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 non-profit health system in the sale of a retail pharmacy business.
  • Lead counsel for a physician behavioral health practice in the sale of a multi-site psychiatric practice to a private equity-backed management services organization.