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Sheppard Mullin’s Illinois Healthcare team offers comprehensive services to a diverse range of healthcare clients. We specialize in strategic transactions and regulatory matters, facilitating innovative corporate combinations for various healthcare entities. We provide experienced guidance on both established and emerging regulatory and governance issues, focused on achieving successful outcomes for our clients.

We handle a variety of healthcare transactions, focusing on mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures and restructurings, addressing the unique challenges and opportunities in the healthcare landscape. Our experience in information privacy and compliance helps clients navigate lawful data handling and breach resolution effectively, aligning with federal and state regulations.

We support strategic growth through effective guidance during investment rounds and significant acquisitions, contributing to our clients' long-term success. Initiatives such as the Healthy AI Roundtable promote networking and thought leadership in the evolving field of healthcare AI.

Our Hospital/Health System Transactions & Regulatory Team (HSTART) advises on transformative health system consolidations, helping clients understand opportunities, risks and regulatory scrutiny to maintain competitive momentum. We also demonstrate our commitment to diversity and leadership in healthcare through our Women in Healthcare Leadership Collaborative, which supports professional development and mentorship.

Chambers Review

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Healthcare - Illinois

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Band 4

What the Team is Known For

Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP is best known for its expertise in representing an array of healthcare providers, hospitals, physician practices, private equity funds and more. The team has significant experience assisting its clients in a wide variety of matters, including but not limited to affiliation agreements, sales of interest, bankruptcy, HIPPA compliance, privacy matters and acquisitions.

Work Highlights

  • Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP represented City Veterinary Care in connection with the sale of a 70% membership interest in ZBS City Vet.

Strengths

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Notable Practitioners

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Douglas B Swill
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Douglas B Swill
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Band 1
Douglas Swill regularly acts for non-profit healthcare entities as well as for-profit organizations, advising on big ticket transactions and regulatory matters such as Anti-Kickback Statute compliance and issues arising from clinical integrations.

Douglas has been a trusted resource for many, many years.

Carolyn Metnick
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Carolyn Metnick
2
Band 2
Carolyn Metnick is well versed in both regulatory compliance and contentious issues, including the development of data protection policies and investigations into data breaches.

Carolyn is responsive and has been doing the best for us. Her guidance so far has been very helpful.

Linas Grikis
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Linas Grikis
3
Band 3
Linas Grikis offers a strong transactional skill set. He is adept at acting in M&A activity, corporate structuring and associated regulatory concerns.

Linas has always been extremely responsive and pragmatic. He is a highly skilled healthcare lawyer and does an excellent job assigning subject matter experts to issues that arise.

Linas is laser-focused on client service.

Megan Rooney
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Megan Rooney
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Band 3
Megan Rooney's client base includes non-profit and for-profit healthcare systems, hospitals and other healthcare corporations. She maintains a broad transactional practice, which includes advising on both affiliation and and unwind transactions.

Megan is great at working with clients in a way that non-lawyers understand what she is saying and the reason behind it.

Megan has been a pleasure to work with. She's responsive, smart and well prepared.

Her client service has been excellent. She's tenacious and was a stickler for making sure people did the things they were supposed to do and on time.

Megan is highly responsive, personable, organized and has strong expertise in healthcare matters.

Ranked Lawyers at
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Illinois

Healthcare

Douglas B Swill
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Douglas B Swill
1
Band 1
Carolyn Metnick
2
Carolyn Metnick
2
Band 2
Linas Grikis
3
Linas Grikis
3
Band 3
Megan Rooney
3
Megan Rooney
3
Band 3

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