McDermott Will & Schulte, a global law firm

With a national transaction practice spanning mergers, acquisitions, affiliations, joint ventures, and system restructurings, Kerrin manages large-scale deals that reshape regional and national healthcare markets. She leads multidisciplinary teams with deep health industry expertise – such as antitrust, employee benefits, environmental, executive compensation, privacy and security, real estate, fraud and abuse, digital health, and white-collar matters – ensuring clients navigate every dimension of highly regulated transactions.

Kerrin’s counsel extends beyond dealmaking to corporate and regulatory compliance matters uniquely affecting healthcare entities. She has depth advising Catholic healthcare organizations and non-Catholic entities partnering with them, structuring solutions at the intersection of corporate and Canon laws.

A previous partner-in-charge of the firm’s Chicago Health Industry Advisory Group, Kerrin combines transactional excellence with strategic leadership that helps healthcare organizations implement their vision in a rapidly evolving landscape.

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• Represented a large academic medical center in the Northeastern United States on multiple strategic hospital and physician practice acquisitions
• Advised a Northeastern health system on an affiliation with a larger regional system, including securing key post-closing commitments
• Led a Midwestern academic medical center’s acquisition of a general acute care hospital, including its commitment to develop and build a replacement hospital
• Advised a publicly traded physician practice management company on joint ventures with hospitals, academic medical centers, and other partners
• Represented a nonprofit hospital in a physician integration transaction involving multiple physician groups, ancillary businesses, and a newly formed nonprofit tax-exempt affiliate
• Led the divestiture of two hospitals and related outpatient services by a large nonprofit health system to affiliates of a Nashville-based hospital company
• Represented a nonprofit health system in a whole-hospital joint venture with a large publicly traded hospital company
• Served as lead counsel to several prominent nonprofit health systems in structuring equity-model joint ventures with physician investors for clinical services

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• Crain’s Chicago Business, Notable Gen X Leader in Law, 2022
• Illinois Super Lawyers, 2014-2021
• Who’s Who Legal: Healthcare, 2021
• The Legal 500 United States, Leading Lawyer, 2015-2020
• The Best Lawyers in America, Lawyer of the Year, Health Care Law, 2017 and 2019
• Ambulatory M&A Advisor, Top Healthcare Transactional Lawyer, Leading Lawyer, 2016-2017
• Ambulatory M&A Advisor, Top Healthcare Transactional Lawyer, Leading Lawyer, 2014

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