Daniel E Fisher

Lawyer information

Practice Areas

Dan Fisher is a member of Dentons' Corporate group and is a co-leader of the Mergers and Acquisitions group. He has substantial experience with complex mergers and acquisitions and financial transactions, including transactional services for clients in highly regulated industries.

Dan's core practice focuses on strategic initiatives at all stages of a business's life cycle.

He also serves as outside counsel to several clients, providing legal advice on their commercial and operational needs and on governance best practices.

Dan's transactional practice is diverse, as are his clients. His experience is principally middle-market, but he has served as lead counsel on large, public-company transactions and several closely held company transactions. His experience extends to transactions for profit and non-profit companies. Dan has participated in several roll-up transactions, some of which immediately preceded the filing of an initial public offering of stock. He frequently advises on complex, tax-related transactions for companies, including a variety of transactional strategies involving employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs), tax-free reorganizations, and various tax deferral strategies for sellers (such as 1031 exchanges and opportunity zone investments).

Dan is very active in representation of health insurers, health maintenance organizations, and health care providers throughout the United States. He regularly serves as transactional and regulatory counsel for health insurers and providers of health care in their strategic initiatives, including mergers and acquisitions, asset acquisitions, affiliation agreements, joint ventures, clinical integration and innovative payment models, management service organization structures and, more recently, private equity investment in physician practices and other health care providers. Dan provides counsel to companies on debt and capital formation strategies. He advises senior housing companies on multi-family residential loan transactions with Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and HUD. In addition to his provision of services to health care providers and health insurers, Dan regularly counsels manufacturers, restaurant and hospitality clients, franchise systems, construction companies, real estate developers, energy producers, and coal and natural resource companies.

Career

Dan is a partner in the Louisville office. He is recognized by his peers and leading industry publications as a leader in Kentucky in corporate/mergers and acquisitions and health care. He is a member of the 2005 Inaugural Class of The Healthcare Fellows.

Professional Memberships

Louisville Bar Association; Kentucky Bar Association; American Health Lawyers Association;

Association for Corporate Growth, Kentucky Chapter; Health Enterprises Network (a Greater Louisville Inc. affiliate)

Personal

Director, Cedar Lake Foundation, Inc.

Experience

Certificate of Need and Licensure for Facilities and Services; Corporate; Energy; Franchising and Distribution; Health Care; Coding, Documentation and Reimbursement; Health Care Transactions; Health Plans; Insurance; Insurance Regulation; Long-Term Care and Senior Living; Long-Term Care Insurance Litigation; Medicaid; Medicare; Mergers and Acquisitions;

Physicians and Physician Organizations

Work Highlights

Representation of a regional, nonprofit hospital system in a business combination that resulted in the formation of the largest provider of hospital and other health care services in the Commonwealth of Kentucky.

Representation of a national health insurance company in its mergers and acquisitions, including acquisitions and dispositions of managed care companies, commercial health insurers, Medicare Advantage organizations, Medicare Part D organizations, insurers of supplemental plans and products (including vision, dental and behavioral health products) and wellness organizations.

Representation of assisted living and post-acute care providers in various financings (including substantial involvement in multi-family financings and supplemental financings with Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and the Department of Housing and Urban Development), mergers and acquisitions, and licensure and operational issues.

Representation of physician groups and other health care providers in implementation of integration and structural strategies (Established ACO and reorganizations under the Advanced Payment ACO Model, the Comprehensive ESRD Care Model, and the Bundled Payment Care Initiative Advance Models), physician practice acquisitions, physician recruitment and employment, joint ventures, third party payer and government contractual matters, certificate of need, licensure and regulatory compliance.

Advise manufacturers in corporate governance, commercial transactions, finance, and mergers and acquisitions.

Advised business organizations in leveraged employee stock ownership plan and trust matters, including the initial leveraging and re-leveraging transactions, 80-26 loans, and development of retention incentives for key-employees.

Represent coal and other natural resource companies in mergers and acquisitions.

Represented regional public utility in its acquisition of electric generation plants and related assets from a debtor in possession in a Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceeding, valued at approximately $800 million.

Frequently represent multiple-store franchisees and restaurant systems in mergers and acquisition activities, franchising, contractual and operational matters.

Expert in these Jurisdictions

Kentucky; US Tax Court

Education