In a difficult mergers and acquisitions market, strategic and financial buyers are competing aggressively for investment opportunities and looking for creative advice to help achieve their objectives.
Our Health Care M&A lawyers bring unparalleled experience to health care companies engaging in their most important transactions. This is due to our unique ability to combine the capabilities of our internationally recognized M&A and Private Equity practice with those of our health care team, all of whom are well versed in the legal and regulatory regimes affecting participants in the health care industry.
Large, complex deals such as these require the coordination of lawyers across various disciplines and geographies, and our M&A team, more than 150 strong across the United States, Europe, and Asia, is adept at delivering world-class legal services while managing cultural differences. From the preliminary structuring of a transaction through its closing, our clients enjoy a partnership focused on achieving their strategic objectives.
The Health Care M&A team at O’Melveny guides sophisticated companies and financial investors through the complexities of merging, acquiring, disposing of, and partnering with health care businesses, whether public or private, domestic or international. In 2007, our clients entrusted us with 175 transactions with an aggregate value of more than US$100 billion.
Key Facts
- Nightingale’s Healthcare News ranks O’Melveny 13th among the nation’s largest healthcare law practices.
- We ranked 4th by deal count for Hong Kong and China Announced Deals in Bloomberg’s 1st half of 2008 report.
- We ranked 6th by MergerStat for the number of U.S. and U.S. Cross-Border M&A Transactions announced in the 1st half of 2008.
- Legal 500 United States 2008 ranked our M&A Practice in the top tier for Mergers, Acquisitions and Buyouts among national firms handling large deals, stating that clients appreciate the team's "business acumen" as well as its "practical, realistic and sound advice."
- Private Equity Analyst ranked our M&A Practice eighth based on the number of private equity and venture capital deals we negotiated and closed in 2007.
Industry Reach
We represent a variety of clients in all sectors of the health care and life sciences industries:
- Biotechnology companies
- Clinical laboratories
- Dialysis companies
- Health care Internet companies
- Health care services companies
- Health insurers and managed care organizations
- Home health agencies
- Hospitals and health care systems
- Investment banks
- Private equity, venture capital, and other investors
- Long-term care companies and assisted-living facilities
- Medical device manufacturers
- Medical supply manufacturers
- Pharmaceutical manufacturers