James M. Pinna

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Jim has been representing health care clients for 20 years on matters involving structuring of business transactions and joint ventures, corporate governance, regulatory compliance and governmental audits and investigations. He works primarily with health systems and other healthcare providers on transactional, regulatory and compliance matters, and regularly advises clients on fraud and abuse, licensure, health privacy and reimbursement issues. He has advised clients on acquisitions, dispositions and joint venture arrangements involving more than 180 healthcare facilities with an aggregate value of over $2 billion as well as physician practice transactions involving over 300 physicians. He has extensive experience working with nonprofit healthcare organizations and has advised on over 50 transactions involving nonprofit / for-profit joint ventures. He has served as Vice Chair of the ABA Health Law Section’s Business & Transactions Interest Group and has been a contributor to the BVR/AHLA Guide to Healthcare Valuation and frequent speaker on healthcare valuation issues. Prior to law school, he worked in business development for a privately held dialysis company in Nashville, TN, where he was responsible for the acquisition of over 25 dialysis clinics.