Gerald M Griffith

Career

Gerry Griffith has represented clients in health care transactions and tax controversies, focusing on cutting-edge affiliation structures and high-stakes IRS audits, for more than 30 years. Gerry's transactional practice focuses on complex transactions, with an emphasis on joint operating agreements (JOAs), other joint ventures (domestic and international) and acquisitions. He has obtained favorable private letter rulings from the IRS, including the first ruling approving a nonprofit hospital JOA, and has experience in nonprofit governance, executive compensation, structuring academic medical center relationships with faculty practice plans, and restructuring hospital-physician transactions for compliance with the Stark Law and excess benefit transaction rules.