Private Equity
The Health Care industry is undergoing unprecedented growth and innovation.
Hall Render’s private equity team of attorneys and advisors leverage the strength and depth of our bench to navigate and efficiently execute private equity transactions. Health care continues to drive private equity activity, creating opportunities for investors and traditional health care providers. Transactions in the health care space are especially complicated, layering health care regulatory and reimbursement considerations on top of a complex securities, antitrust, employment, privacy and security framework.
Our private equity team focuses solely on health care transactions. This singular focus puts us on the front lines of trends and developments in the health care private equity space. The result is practical, strategic counsel to our clients.
Areas of Focus
- Bolt-On Acquisition
- Contract Negotiation and Preparation
- General Business Transactions and Services
- Hospital and Health System Counsel
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Platform Acquisition
- Private Credit
Resources
The Hall Render Advantage
Hall Render’s experienced private equity team provides the full scope of health care private equity transaction services, including platform acquisitions and bolt-on deals involving hospitals, physician groups and ancillary service providers. Our dedication to health care allows us to fully assess potential economic and compliance risks during due diligence, and makes us an ideal strategic partner for deal counsel on health care due diligence. We also support restructuring and insolvency counsel to assist clients navigating regulatory hurdles during bankruptcy and restructurings. Our team includes former in-house general counsel for private equity portfolio companies, providing a unique insight into our role as outside general counsel for such companies, advising on day-to-day legal matters, as well as transactional, operational and compliance issues. We have a dedicated value-based care team to advise private equity clients on risk-taking in the value-based space, whether through accountable care organizations, value-based enterprises or other value-based care platforms.
If your organization is in need of private equity guidance and practical solutions, please contact us to get started.
Recent Representative Experience:
- Lead counsel representing the sale of an anesthesia staffing and management services provider to a private equity-backed anesthesia services provider.
- Regulatory counsel in bankruptcy restructuring and sale of private equity-backed oncology group.
- Lead counsel representing a private equity-backed physician network in its acquisition of multiple physician practices.
- Lead counsel representing ophthalmology group practice sale to a private equity-backed enterprise.
- Lead counsel for dermatology practice being sold to a private equity-backed company.
- Lead transaction counsel on the buy-side for private equity-backed dental MSO to acquire dental practice.
- Lead counsel representing a medical center sale of its affiliated ambulatory surgery centers to a private equity group buyer.
- Lead counsel for a dental practice in sale to a private equity-backed dental MSO.
- Regulatory counsel for lenders in bankruptcy restructuring of private equity-backed health system.
Key Contacts
Joseph M. Kahn
Attorney Raleigh Office Phone: (919) 447-4966 Email: jkahn@hallrender.com vCard: Download vCardJoe 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…
Colleen M. Powers
Attorney Indianapolis Office Phone: (317) 977-1471 Email: cpowers@hallrender.com vCard: Download vCardColleen Powers is a health care transactions attorney who advises health systems, hospitals and physician groups on complex strategic transactions at the intersection of business strategy and regulatory requirements.
She regularly serves as lead counsel on high‑profile mergers, acquisitions and divestitures and helps clients advance alignment strategies that shape organizations long after a deal closes.
Colleen’s practice includes:
- Leading hospital and physician group acquisitions and divestitures with full transactional oversight and strategic guidance;
- Leading joint ventures…
Erin M. Drummy
Attorney Indianapolis Office Phone: (317) 977-1414 Email: edrummy@hallrender.com vCard: Download vCardErin Drummy is a nationally recognized health care regulatory and transactional attorney who advises hospitals, health systems, physicians and health care businesses on complex business arrangements, compliance matters and strategic alignment.
Her practice focuses on state and federal regulatory strategy, including corporate practice of medicine, physician compensation, fraud and abuse compliance and value‑based care arrangements, and she regularly counsels clients on transactions leveraging her deep regulatory expertise to carefully align with health care regulatory, enrollment…
Rubin Pusha III
Attorney Indianapolis Office Phone: (773) 550-6859 Email: rpusha@hallrender.com vCard: Download vCardRubin Pusha III is a health care transactions attorney who advises sponsors, portfolio companies and owners of closely held health care companies on mergers and acquisitions, investments and strategic growth transactions.
He represents private equity‑backed platforms and independent health care businesses in buy‑side and sell‑side transactions, including platform acquisitions, add‑on and tuck-in acquisitions, roll‑ups, divestitures and recapitalizations. Rubin takes a practical, business‑focused approach to structuring and executing transactions and works closely with clients to advance…
