Robert Kantrowitz

Robert Kantrowitz is a corporate healthcare partner in the New York office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP, focusing on healthcare regulatory, privacy/security, enforcement, transactional and restructuring matters. He regularly represents healthcare and veterinary clients in structuring and negotiating M&A, data and technology sharing/licensing, management services and other contractual arrangements, corporate organization and restructuring, compliance matters and investigations, data breach/incident response and risk management legal issues. Rob assists clients with a broad range of healthcare and veterinary regulatory matters, including laws related to fraud and abuse, licensure, the corporate practice of medicine, telemedicine, EHR and use of artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies.

Rob holds a Certified Information Privacy Professional/United States (CIPP/US) credential given by the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP). Robert regularly counsels clients on privacy, data security, breach notification and interoperability laws and regulations, including HIPAA, Part 2, the ONC 21st Century Cures Act Final Rule, the FTC Health Breach Notification Rule, and state privacy, security and breach notification laws.

Rob is routinely called upon as special regulatory and healthcare privacy counsel in connection with major acquisitions of healthcare and veterinary service platforms undertaken by private equity and strategic acquirers. These transactions involve health information technology developers and service providers, EHR, data analytics, and revenue cycle management platforms and other digital health organizations, device and pharmaceutical/biotechnology manufacturers, laboratories, clinical research organizations and physician, dental, intermediate care, veterinary, medspa and other clinical platforms.