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Sheppard, Mullin, Hampton & Richter LLP

Healthcare: The Elite

USA Guide 2026 : USA - Nationwide

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Sheppard, Mullin, Hampton & Richter LLP

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Every day, Sheppard guides healthcare’s largest and most innovative companies on how to survive and thrive in today’s healthcare environment. We support all healthcare sectors with actionable intelligence informed by our unmatched experience, relationships and business knowledge. Our mission is to transform and improve healthcare by sharing what works and what doesn’t, by integrating legal analysis with informed strategy and tactics and by being in the trenches with our clients every day. 

Law360 named us the best health law practice five times in the last decade because we are able to lead the largest and most transformative, game-changing projects for providers, payors, investors and disruptors. Our deal, regulatory, litigation/enforcement and specialty lawyers provide an integrated, sophisticated, one-firm solution or can act as targeted expert co-counsel. 

Industries (11)

  • healthcare
  • health insurers
  • service providers
  • private equity
  • real estate
  • digital health
  • not-for-profit
  • medical universities
  • hospitals
  • telemedicine
  • post-acute and physican sectors

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Healthcare: The Elite - USA - Nationwide

Band 4

What the Team is Known For

Sheppard has a well-regarded healthcare group, particularly adept at handling transactional matters such as joint ventures and physician group acquisitions. Called upon by a wide range of clients including national health plans, physician organizations and private equity investors.

Notable practitioners

California-based Eric Klein and New York-based Amanda Zablocki co-lead the firm's healthcare industry team, which draws on resources across California, Dallas, Chicago, New York and Washington, DC.

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Work Highlights

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  • Sheppard represented Ascension Health in its acquisition of AMSURG for a media-reported price of $3.9 billion.

Strengths

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  • Sheppard has outstanding lawyers in all the relevant practice areas needed for healthcare acquisitions and other large healthcare transactions. Their lawyers can handle all aspects of complex healthcare transactions.

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