Samantha Prokop

Corporate Law

Florida Counsel Services

Healthcare Law

Healthcare Transactions

M&A and Private Equity

Samantha Prokop serves as head of Gunster’s Healthcare Transactions team. In her counsel to corporate and healthcare companies, Sam serves as an advisor to clients establishing new businesses, executing mergers and acquisitions and navigating business disputes and break-ups.

Sam has served as a risk manager and general counsel for a multi-location hospital system. Through her range of experience, Sam aims to help her clients remove barriers to develop practical, workable solutions to their complex problems, addressing immediate issues while developing long-term strategies for growth.

A focus on healthcare regulatory compliance

Clients reach out to Sam for help dealing with regulatory compliance matters including structuring arrangements to comply with the federal Stark Law, Anti-Kickback Statute, Florida Patient Self-Referral Act, Florida Patient Brokering Act, and other applicable laws, rules and regulations, as well as evaluating these laws as part of acquisitions.

Sam’s representative clients include:

Academic medical centers

Medical device distribution companies

Group practices and independent physician associations

Hospitals and ambulatory surgery centers

Home health agencies

Nurse registries

Laboratories and diagnostic facilities

Medical executives and medical professionals

Accountable care organizations

Pharmacies

PBMs

ACOs

MSOs

Applying a focused, solutions-oriented approach aimed at advancing our clients’ businesses

From a corporate perspective, Sam represents clients in a variety of industries seeking to establish new businesses by developing structures that attract new investors, owners, partners and talent.

She supports clients in reviewing and negotiating contracts and employment agreements, establishing executive compensation arrangements and drafting operating agreements, partnership agreements, shareholders’ agreements, buy-sell agreements and bylaws.

From the letter of intent through closing, Sam assists clients with mergers, sales and acquisitions including handling day-to-day business disputes both internally and with outside vendors.