healthcare
"unique ability to handle novel patient situations, providing rapid advice on request at any time of day"
Chambers USA
Premier Healthcare Practice
Representing leading healthcare providers and private equity firms investing in healthcare for over three decades. One of first and most prominent healthcare practices in US.
Breadth & Depth
Extensive experience in solving the most pressing legal issues of healthcare providers, including:
| Academic medical centers | Life sciences companies |
| Diagnostic imaging centers | Long-term care & sr. living |
| Healthcare IT & services | Mobile service providers |
| Health insurers | Pharmaceutical companies |
| Hospices | Physicians |
| Hospitals | Sleep labes |
Bench Strength
Integrated team of corporate, regulatory and life sciences attorneys representing healthcare providers, technology and science companies and their investors. Lawyers throughout practice areas consistently receive national recognition for excellence.
Full Range of Healthcare Services
Full range of services for healthcare providers, including:
| Antitrust | Medicare/medicaid reimbursements |
| Bankruptcy & insolvency | Mergers & acquisitions |
| Development of sr. living communities | Outside general counsel services |
| E-health | Privacy/HIPAA |
| Fraud & abuse compliance | Regulatory compliance |
| Human subjects research | Strategic partnerships |
| Licensure & certification | Tax exempt matters |
Preeminent Private Equity/ Venture Capital Clients
Lawyers have represented preeminent private equity and venture capital firms and their portfolio companies in healthcare investments, M&A transactions, licensing and regulatory matters, including:
| Altaris Capital Partners | Mainsail Partners |
| Boston Ventures | Parthenon Capital |
| Capital Resource Partners | Polaris Ventures |
| Essex Woodlands | Riverside Partners |
| Galen Partners | Summit Partners |
| Heritage Partners |
National Recognition
Nationally recognized:
- “Buyout Deal of the Year” award for 2005: Choate represented private equity seller in sale of nursing home portfolio company (Buyouts Magazine)
- Named “Go-to-Firm” in M&A and IP in 2008 (Corporate Counsel)
- Chair of healthcare practice recognized in Chambers USA: The Leading Lawyers for Business
blue chip clients
Lawyers have represented blue chip clients, including:
Astellas Pharma
Beth Israel Deaconess
Brigham & Women's Hospital
Cape Cod Healthcare
Cildren's Hospital Boston
Dana Farber
Flethcer Allen Healthcare
Harvard Medical School
Harvard Pilgrim
Health Watch
Mass General Hospital
Saints Medical Center
South Shore Hospital
Tufts Health Plan
scientific & strategic expertise
Team of IP attorneys, patent agents and staff scientists, many with PhDs and other advanced degrees, expert in major fields, including:
Biotech
Cardiology
Diagnostics
Drug delivery/formulation
Genomics
Immunology
Medical devices
Nanotechnology
Neuroscience
Oncology
Pharmaceuticals
Proteomics
choate assists in development of clinical affiliation
Choate represented South Shore Hospital, a large community hospital, in developing a clinical affiliation with a major Boston health system to broaden its offerings in women’s health, cancer care and cardiology services.
The affiliation has led to new residency programs, an elective angioplasty program as part of the MASSCOM Trial at the hospital’s new cardiovascular care center, and expanded services in reproductive endocrinology and urogynecology.
choate conducts assessment of hospital review board
choate conducts voluntary disclosure
