Client Alert
GOOD DEAL: Reliable Guidance for Today’s Health Care Transactions
October 11, 2010
Prepared by: Heather Mallard and Greg Chabon with remarks by Stuart Stogner*
Abraham Lincoln famously stated, “A house divided cannot stand.” This profound political insight likewise holds true in the vitally important world of today’s health care transactions. Successful health care transactions require a combination of both regulatory and transactional proficiency. The Womble Carlyle Health Care Transactions Team was created out of our concern to provide our health care clients the security that only comes when regulatory and transactional skill work together in a unified and complementary manner.
The FOCUS section of this newsletter addresses the need to see your way clear through the complexity of health care transactions. By addressing a broad spectrum of various topics pertinent to health care transactions, this section will give you a clearer and more complete view of the context in which your health care deals take place. Then, the other section, FOUNDATIONS, will discuss the nuts and bolts of how to put a successful transaction together. Each month’s installment will explain a specific piece of the transaction puzzle, until eventually, you will possess a reliable compendium that provides the basic components of today’s health care deal.
So, welcome to this first edition of GOOD DEAL. We trust that this publication will prove itself a valuable resource to help you keep your organization strong and secure.
Focus
Health Care Transactions. A simple phrase that for many health care clients and law firms presents a perplexing combination of issues and laws: regulatory, corporate, antitrust, merger and acquisition, tax, “market” terms and conditions. How can or should a health care entity approach doing merger and acquisition transactions? Click here to continue reading...
Foundation – The ABCs of LOIs and MOUs
Transaction junkies have a veritable “alphabet soup” lexicon of acronyms for critical deal elements and documents (e.g., APA, SPA, EBITDA, LOI, MOU, etc.) In an attempt to demystify the world of “deals”, we wanted to start at the beginning, with LOIs and MOUs, which stand for letters of intent and memoranda of understanding, respectively. Click here to continue reading...
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