Jenny Shealy

Practice Areas

Corporate Governance

General Counsel Services

Healthcare Compliance & Operations

Healthcare Government Investigations & Litigation

Healthcare Transactions

Mergers & Acquisitions

Non-Profit Organizations

Taxable & Tax-Exempt Entities

Career

Jenny F. Shealy represents health care providers and tax-exempt organizations on wide-ranging regulatory compliance, corporate governance, transactional, and operational matters, with a special focus on issues surrounding tax-exempt healthcare organizations. She regularly advises clients on ways to structure transactions involving tax-exempt and public hospitals, including joint ventures between tax-exempt and for-profit healthcare providers, conversions, joint operating companies, member substitutions and public/private affiliations.

Shealy provides strategic and practical advice regarding various hospital/physician transactions including employment and independent contractor arrangements, professional services agreements with a focus on minimizing the compliance risks caused by extensive and complex regulatory requirements governing the healthcare industry.

She advises various types of tax-exempt organizations to obtain tax exemptions under Section 501(c)(3) or another provision of the tax code and assists tax-exempt organizations with operational compliance issues. Shealy also provides tax-exempt organizations with guidance regarding bylaws and corporate governance, conflict of interest policies and Board involvement in compliance and quality-related issues.

Professional Memberships

Member of Board of Directors of Horry Telephone Cooperative

American Healthcare Lawyers Association

South Carolina Bar

American Bar Association

Horry County Bar Association

Member, Tax Section, South Carolina Bar