Upcoming Event
Cozen O'Connor's Health Care & Life Sciences industry team invites you to this year's Health Law 2022 program.
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Health care and life sciences is inarguably one of the largest, most heavily regulated, and fastest-growing industries in the U.S. economy. It is also utterly unique. Health care and life sciences companies do not function simply to maximize returns, and the standard economic forces of supply and demand do not apply. Ultimately, every player in this market—whether a hospital, biotechnology company, nursing home, or medical equipment manufacturer—is responsible for helping people lead longer and healthier lives.
To be effective, advocates for the health care and life sciences industry must integrate an awareness of and commitment to this underlying responsibility into every element of their work. The members of Cozen O’Connor’s health care and life sciences industry team understand this social mission as well as its legal, political, macroeconomic and business consequences for our clients. Attorneys at the firm have been providing excellent counsel to health care and life science companies for decades.
Our client base includes a diverse array of companies. In the health care sector, we serve leading pharmaceutical companies, hospitals, health care systems, medical equipment manufacturers and suppliers, assisted living facilities, academic institutions, insurers and physician groups. In the life sciences sector, we serve drug developers, biotechnology companies, medical device manufacturers and cutting-edge startups.
For health care and life sciences clients, it is essential that their attorneys have deep industry knowledge. Good commercial litigators or corporate lawyers can serve a chain of shoe stores just as capably as a chain of pizza parlors, but that does not mean they can serve a chain of hospitals. The health and life sciences field is so heavily regulated that all legal work in this arena must be grounded in a specific and sophisticated understanding of health laws. At Cozen O’Connor, we have litigators, transactional lawyers and corporate counselors who are both leaders in their legal disciplines and masters of this complex and ever-changing statutory regime.
SERVICE AREAS
Litigation
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Handle third-party payer litigation and reimbursement proceedings
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Represent clients in fraud, abuse, Stark Law and False Claims Act cases
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Conduct internal investigations and respond to enforcement acts by federal and state agencies
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Represent health care and life sciences companies in intellectual property, employment, antitrust and other commercial litigation
Transactional
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Arrange mergers, acquisitions, consolidations, divestitures, workouts and restructurings
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Negotiate joint ventures, alliances and co-management arrangements
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Resolve antitrust, tax and bankruptcy issues for health care and life sciences organizations
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Arrange financings through public offerings, bonds, loans and other investment vehicles
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Conduct major real estate deals for industry clients
Regulatory
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Advise on privacy, confidentiality, HIPAA compliance and safety laws
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Handle Medicare, Medicaid and other third-party reimbursement matters
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Develop and assess regulatory compliance programs for health care and life science clients
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Counsel clients on employee benefits, credentialing and executive compensation strategies
RELATED PRACTICES
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Health Law
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Labor & Employment
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Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation
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Antitrust
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Real Estate
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Public & Project Finance
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Intellectual Property
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Product Liability
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Cozen O’Connor Public Strategies, LLC