Overview

Andy assists clients with transactional, regulatory, and operational matters. He has significant experience with healthcare matters including business transactions, acquisitions, the Anti-Kickback Statute, the Stark Law, HIPAA and privacy matters, contract drafting, and due diligence. 

He also has a robust practice counseling faith-based institutions and other nonprofit organizations on a range of legal, transactional, and strategic matters.

Prior to joining Michael Best, Andy practiced at a major international law firm and served in-house as Associate University Counsel at the University of North Carolina (UNC)-Chapel Hill. At UNC, Andy advised the University’s schools of Medicine, Dentistry, and Pharmacy on a wide range of transactional, regulatory, and operational matters. He also served as the Associate Dean for Strategy & Compliance at UNC’s Adams School of Dentistry on an interim basis.

Experience

Examples of Andy’s experience include the following:

  • Outside general counsel to mid-sized and growing churches/nonprofits.
  • Buy-side and sell-side counsel in strategic and roll-up acquisitions.
  • Negotiated a research collaboration and option agreement in a public/private partnership.
  • Counseled a faith-based nonprofit organization through an in-depth internal investigation and ecclesiastical court trial process.
  • Developed and implemented physician and dentist compensation plan for mid-sized and large practice groups.
  • Advised physician and dentistry practice groups in creating form employment agreements.
  • Advised owner of dental practice in sale to employee.
  • Advised single-specialty physician practice in buy-in of new partner and transfer of property.
  • Advised practice group in various joint ventures.
  • Advised owner of multi-state metals business in sale to investor group.
  • Advised orthopedic surgeon in split from partner and practice sale to hospital.

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