Corporate/Mergers and Acquisitions

Garfunkel Wild takes great care in learning about its clients' businesses.  Our approach enables us to focus on our clients' goals and objectives while providing sound legal and practical business advice.  Garfunkel Wild provides a full range of services, from assisting clients during the start-up phase, and through growth and acquisitive transactions. Along the way, Garfunkel Wild is there to answer the day-to-day legal, strategic, and regulatory questions that may arise. 
 
Our Corporate team provides the following services to our clients:
 

• Preparing and negotiating partnership, shareholder, and operating agreements
• Business and practice formations, including structural advice relating thereto
• Lending transactions
• Responding to complex regulatory issues
• Preparing all types of commercial contracts, including employment, professional service, billing, management, information technology, supplier and vendor contracts

 
Garfunkel Wild advises clients on a broad range of mergers and acquisitions, with a particular focus on the health care sector. Whether representing the buyer or the seller, our motivated team can efficiently handle all issues arising from an acquisition, merger, disposition, integration or affiliation, or a similar transaction, including issues relating to corporate and regulatory structuring, compliance, employment, real estate, and tax matters.
 
Our Mergers and Acquisitions team provides the following services to our clients:
 

• Navigating complex regulatory and compliance issues relating to fraud and abuse, billing and coding, privacy and data, corporate practice of medicine, and false claims, to name a few, to assure that all risks are identified, and the transaction is properly structured and timely consummated
• Working with private equity funds to structure platform buyers and efficiently close add-on acquisitions
• Advising sellers with respect to rollover equity,  compensation arrangements,  health care diligence, reverse diligence on buyers, ‘earn-outs’ and other post-closing payments, and other structural, tax and regulatory issues unique to types of transactions where the buyer is not provider-owned

 
Whether the buyer/facilitator is a health system, private equity or venture capital fund, a physician group, or another strategic buyer or partner, Garfunkel Wild has closed countless transactions of all sizes, and collaborates with all types of professional advisors.  Our multi-state presence and close ties with local counsel, when necessary, means our expertise is available nationwide.