Michelle A Williams

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Michelle A. Williams, former leader of the Firm's Health Care Regulatory team, focuses her practice on regulatory and structuring aspects of hospital mergers, acquisitions and integrations.

As former in-house counsel at large academic medical centers, Michelle Williams draws on her industry experience to advise on regulatory and structuring aspects of hospital mergers, acquisitions, and integrations. She has a reputation for smoothly obtaining attorney general and federal approvals for complex transactions, and she also advises on EMTALA, QIO hearings, medical staff issues, corporate governance and hospital authorities and districts.

Ms. Williams focuses her practice on the regulatory and structuring aspects of hospital mergers, acquisitions, and integrations. Her experience includes obtaining attorney general and federal approvals for complex transactions and/or conversion from nonprofit to for-profit status, and issues of successor liability. She also advises on corporate governance and Medical Staff governance in connection with changes of control or ownership. She represents clients undergoing CMS, EMTALA and state surveys, Medicare terminations and regulatory review, and advises on hospital authority law, voluntary disclosures, corporate integrity agreements and qui tam defense.

Former medical technologist/researcher (microbiology); former in-house counsel, University Hospitals of Cleveland, Mount Sinai Hospital Cleveland.

American Health Lawyers Association; Red Cross Southern Region Blood Services Board; Georgia Bio (Board); past commissioner, DHHS Advisory Commission on Childhood Vaccines.

B.S./B.S., Michigan State University; MT, Butterworth Hospital; J.D., Case Western Reserve University.