EXPERIENCE:
LEWIS BRISBOIS BISGAARD & SMITH LLP, Tampa, FL
Corporate and Health Law Partner, March 2009 to June 2011
Advise clients on structuring and negotiating the issuance and sale of securities, joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions, asset sales, stock purchase transactions, licensing and commercial transactions. Counsel health care industry clients such as physicians, dentists, insurance companies and managed care organizations on structuring business transactions in compliance with federal laws and regulations such as the Stark Law, fraud and abuse and state laws and regulations applicable to the health care industry. Serve as general counsel to non-US based operating companies seeking to become publicly traded entities on United States markets.
BROAD AND CASSEL, Tampa, FL
Corporate and Health Law Associate, July 2007 to February 2009
Counseled public and private companies on corporate governance, securities law, mergers and acquisitions and commercial transactions. Advised health law clients on compliance with federal laws and regulations such as Stark law, fraud and abuse and state laws and regulations.
SHUMAKER, LOOP & KENDRICK, LLP, Tampa, FL
Corporate Associate, March 2004 to June 2007
Advised the management and directors of clients in connection with mergers and acquisitions, securities law, including representation of public companies in connection with filings and negotiation with the SEC, NASD and various state securities regulators and the evaluation and negotiation of business transactions along with drafting and negotiating the documentation related to the foregoing. Legal practice also included health care law, intellectual property licensing, venture capital financing, and general contract law.
TESTA, HURWITZ & THIBEAULT, LLP, Boston, MA
Corporate Associate, September 1999 to July 2003
Practiced various aspects of partnership, corporate and securities law including representation of venture capital and private equity investment firms in connection with investment fund formation, management and maintenance. Legal practice also included mergers and acquisitions, venture capital and angel financing representing both investors and companies and representation of public companies. Responsibilities consisted of advising the management and directors of clients in evaluating and negotiating business transactions and related securities law issues along with drafting and negotiating the documentation related the foregoing.
BAR ADMISSIONS
Admitted to the Bar of the State of Florida, January 2007
Admitted to Supreme Judicial Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, December 1999
ASSOCIATIONS, PRESENTATIONS AND ACTIVITIES:
- American Health Lawyers Association
- Association for Corporate Growth- Tampa Bay Chapter
- “Anti-trust considerations in connection with the formation of Independent Practice Associations” presented to solo practice physicians, October 2011
- “Issues for Accountants When Business Partners Conduct a Disputed Business Break Up” presented at the 9th Annual Tax and Business Update, June 2011
- “Starting Out: Business and Legal Matters” presented to resident medical students at the Florida Academy of Family Physicians Spring Meeting, April 2011
- “Ready to Stop Leasing and Start Owning your own Practice Location” presented with FDA Services and Bank of America Practice Solutions, March 2010
- “Health Care Fraud” presented to Universal Health Care Group Panel Physicians, October 2008
- “Legal Issues to Consider in Starting a Dental Practice” presented with Bank of America Practice Solutions, July and August 2007
- “Health and Business Law Issues in the Purchase and Sale of Physician Practices” presented to Hillsborough County Bar Association, Health Law Section for Continuing Legal Education, April 2007
- Hillsborough County Bar Association, Co-Chair of the Health Law Section 2007-2009
- Gasparilla Festival of the Arts, Inc., Board of Directors, Co-Chair of 2009 Festival.
EDUCATION:
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW, New York, NY
Juris Doctor, May 1999
MOREHOUSE COLLEGE, Atlanta, GA
Bachelor of Arts, magna cum laude, in Political Science, May 1996
Honors: Phi Beta Kappa