Julia Coelho
Represents healthcare providers and organizations in corporate transactions. Advises on contracts, negotiations, privacy compliance, and disputes.
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Healthcare and life sciences organizations need counsel that understands how legal decisions play out across the business. We bring industry experience and coordinated legal perspective to matters affecting operations, innovation, and growth.
Our focus
Legal strategy for the decisions where regulation and growth intersect.
Healthcare providers must deliver care within a demanding regulatory and reimbursement environment. Life sciences companies must move innovations from development to market while protecting their investment and meeting legal obligations. We advise both when legal decisions may determine whether an initiative can move forward.
We advise hospitals, health systems, physician groups, ambulatory surgical facilities, healthcare professional associations, and other provider organizations. Our work includes regulatory compliance, governance, contracts, transactions, medical staff matters, fraud and abuse, reimbursement, HIPAA, and health information technology.
For life sciences, medical device, and health technology companies, we draw on attorneys across the firm to address formation and financing, mergers and acquisitions, intellectual property, technology licensing, and commercialization. Our experience includes emerging life sciences companies, medical technologies, patent strategy, technology transfer, and transactions involving healthcare and life sciences businesses.
These matters often require several legal perspectives at once. A transaction may involve regulatory, tax, employment, privacy, intellectual property, or antitrust considerations. We bring the appropriate attorneys into the work while keeping the strategy connected to the organization’s operations and broader direction.
We advise healthcare organizations on the requirements affecting their operations and business relationships. Our work includes Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement, Stark Law and Anti-Kickback Statute compliance, the False Claims Act, compliance programs, risk management, healthcare contracts, and accountable care arrangements.
We advise healthcare and life sciences organizations on acquisitions, sales, strategic affiliations, reorganizations, joint ventures, and other transactions. Our attorneys address the regulatory, tax, governance, antitrust, and operational considerations that may influence structure and timing.
We help organizations address HIPAA, protected health information, cybersecurity, health information technology, and technology agreements. Our work includes privacy compliance, incident response, and the data issues connected to transactions and operations.
We advise hospitals and other healthcare organizations on medical staff bylaws, credentialing, peer review, disciplinary proceedings, and related risk-management concerns.
We advise life sciences, medical device, and health technology companies on intellectual property protection, licensing, technology transfer, financing, commercialization, and strategic transactions.
We advise healthcare organizations and life sciences companies on entity formation, governance, financing, securities, tax-exempt status, and general business agreements. Our work includes matters involving nonprofit healthcare providers, emerging companies, and organizations pursuing growth or restructuring.
We advise healthcare and life sciences employers on workplace policies, employee relations, investigations, labor matters, employee benefits, executive compensation, and disputes affecting the workforce.
We represent healthcare and life sciences organizations in commercial disputes, regulatory investigations, enforcement matters, and litigation involving contracts, professional relationships, intellectual property, and other operational concerns.
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