Healthcare M&A in California: A Progress Report

M&A: California Progress Report

Friday May 20th, 2011
10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. Pacific (1:00 - 2:00 p.m. Eastern)
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Implications of swift upsurge in Healthcare M&A activity

How new M&A climate affects hospital, health plan and nursing home sectors

How the current financial climate is driving healthcare M&A

The role investment firms are playing and how they will change the healthcare delivery landscape

How the need to form ACOs and comply with reform drives and shapes healthcare M&A activity

What California M&A transactions will look like in 2011 and beyond

What forms California healthcare M&A will take on

Faculty:
Guy M. Masters
Senior Vice President
The Camden Group

Faculty:
Jill H. Gordon
Partner/Vice Chair
Healthcare Practice
Davis Wright Tremaine

Faculty:
Paul F. Lawrence
Partner
McDermott Will & Emery LLP

After a dormant period in merger and acquisition activity brought on by the Great Recession, economic recovery and the business necessity of consolidating operations in the face of federal healthcare reform is causing a swift upsurge in M&A activity.

However, the form of M&As has changed: Financial investment firms such as Warburg Pincus and Cerberus Capital Management are making whole acquisitions for their own portfolios rather than just taking a minority stake. Relatively new hospital chains such as Prime Healthcare are quickly consolidating the market for medium and small-sized facilities and offering a new paradigm for financially distressed organizations.

California has long been at the forefront of the healthcare business, so how will the swiftly accelerating and shifting M&A environment affect the Golden State? This session will discuss the present climate for deal-making in California, which targets may be the most attractive, and what the future will hold.

Please join Jill H. Gordon, vice chair of the healthcare law practice at Davis Wright Tremaine, Paul F. Lawrence, partner and healthcare merger specialist in the law firm of McDermott Will & Emery, and Guy M. Masters, senior vice president of The Camden Group, to discuss the M&A environment in California.

Participants will be able to answer:

How is the current financial climate driving healthcare M&A?
What will M&A transactions in California look like for the coming year and the foreseeable future?
What forms will healthcare M&A in California take on?
What role will investment firms take on in healthcare M&A? How will they change the healthcare delivery landscape?
How will the need to form ACOs and comply with federal healthcare reform drive and shape healthcare M&A activity?
How will M&A affect the hospital, health plan and nursing home sectors?

Interested attendees would include:

C-Suite executives
Healthcare investment executives and staff
Healthcare attorneys
Healthcare consultants
Policy experts
Provider network executives and staff
Provider contracting executives and staff
Merger & acquisition executives and staff
Healthcare industry analysts
Other Interested Parties

Attendees would represent organizations including:

Hospitals and hospital chains
Health plans
Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs)
Policy think tanks and foundations
Law firms
Healthcare consulting firms
Media
Healthcare capital and investment firms
Other interested organizations

Individual Registration Fee: $195. Audio Conference CD-ROM: $40 for attendees; $255 for non-attendees after the event.

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Jill H. Gordon
Partner/Vice Chair, Healthcare Practice
Davis Wright Tremaine

Jill Gordon is a health law and life sciences attorney representing hospitals, long-term care facilities, medical groups and other entities affiliated with the healthcare industry. Jill also represents a number of emerging growth companies in the medical device and biotech fields.

She primarily counsels clients on transactional and regulatory matters including forming and operating joint ventures and other alliances; structuring mergers and acquisitions; entity formation and financing; and negotiating agreements such as physician contracts, leases, management arrangements and managed care contracts.

Paul F. Lawrence
Partner
McDermott Will & Emery LLP

Paul F. Lawrence is a partner in the law firm of McDermott Will & Emery LLP and is based in the Los Angeles office. He concentrates his practice on mergers, acquisitions, affiliations, dispositions and complex business transactions involving companies in the healthcare services industry. He has developed a particular expertise in representing hospitals, health systems, pharmacy companies, dialysis companies, and private equity firms in the acquisition and divestiture of healthcare services related businesses and business lines.

These transactions include asset transfers, stock transactions, merger transactions and other affiliation transactions. He has been lead counsel on high profile, multi-facility acute care hospital acquisitions and divestiture transactions, both nationally and regionally, as well as a variety of smaller healthcare services company transactions designed to address the strategic positioning needs of clients.

Guy M. Masters
Senior Vice President
The Camden Group

Guy M. Masters is a senior vice president with The Camden Group. With 20 years of healthcare experience, Mr. Masters focuses on strategic, business, and service line planning, and business advisory and competitive positioning strategies for hospitals/health systems, physicians and payers.

He has developed HMOs, PPOs, IPAs, MSOs, PHOs, medical groups, and direct contract relationships with employers. He is an experienced facilitator of board retreats, strategic planning processes, and business planning for healthcare services.

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