Mitchell D Lindstrom

Practice Areas

Capital Markets & Public Company Advisory, Corporate, Health Care, Transactions

Career

Mitchell Lindstrom is a senior counsel with Foley & Lardner LLP. He is a member of the firm’s Transactions Practice Group and Health Care Practice Group.

Mitchell maintains a comprehensive transactional practice, with a focus on mergers and acquisitions, private equity, and corporate governance matters. Mitchell has significant and particular experience representing clients in the health care space, including hospital systems, providers, medical device companies, life sciences companies, and health care information technology companies. He regularly counsels clients in mergers, acquisitions, dispositions, joint-ventures, reorganizations, and recapitalizations, including strategic enterprises, private equity firms, and family-owned and other closely held businesses.

Mitchell also serves as outside general counsel to a number of companies, including private equity portfolio companies, advising on all matters of corporate and health care law.

Prior to joining Foley, Mitchell was a corporate associate at a prominent Milwaukee-based law firm, where he also served as a summer associate. Mitchell also worked as a legal intern in the Office of the Chief Counsel of the Internal Revenue Service and was a law clerk in the corporate legal department of Emerson Electric.

Experience

Experience includes representing major health care clients—including Advocate Aurora Health, Aspirus, Inc., and Health Care Service Corporation—in a range of complex and high-stakes transactions. These matters have included multi-entity acquisitions, cross-market asset transfers, and the integration of clinical and administrative operations across hospitals, clinics, and affiliated service providers. Additional work spans strategic investments and exits across specialties such as radiology, gastroenterology, autism services, and complex rehab technology, including numerous private equity-backed platform formations, add-on acquisitions, and recapitalizations. Mitchell has also advised on transactions involving dental and orthodontic practices, telehealth companies acquiring brick-and-mortar operations, diagnostic laboratories, and healthcare technology businesses expanding through M&A. Outside of the healthcare space, he has handled transactions in sectors such as industrial manufacturing, enterprise software, craft brewing, and insurance, often representing private equity sponsors or strategic acquirers. He also serves as outside general counsel to a number of privately held companies across the Midwest, providing ongoing counsel on corporate governance, commercial contracts, and strategic growth initiatives.

Education