Beyond M&A: Strategic Affiliations for Hospitals and Health Systems

Ken Marlow is known as a go-to transactional advisor in the healthcare industry. During his three-decade career, he has worked with hospitals, health systems and other healthcare providers, and healthcare investors to structure and execute their most complex transactions.

Ken has led some of the most significant and transformative transactions in the United States, including mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, and joint ventures among hospitals, physician groups, and other providers. He has assisted clients with hundreds of transactions in both healthcare services and life sciences, including ambulatory, digital health and AI, behavioral health, physician practice management, home health and hospice, medical devices, pharmaceuticals, laboratory services, payor combinations, long-term care, and rehabilitation.

In addition to his hospital and health systems practice, Ken regularly represents private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies in a wide variety of transactional matters. He also works with clients across the healthcare community with respect to board guidance and other corporate governance needs. With a nationwide practice and deep roots in Nashville, the epicenter of the US healthcare industry, Ken is uniquely positioned to connect clients with the right partners to achieve their strategic business objectives.

Ken frequently speaks at national conferences, and he is regularly quoted in publications such as Modern Healthcare, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal. Prior to joining McDermott Will & Schulte, Ken was the chair of the global healthcare industry team and the leader of the healthcare and FDA practice of a large international law firm.

Farley Reardon is a Partner at Juniper Advisory with over 25 years of corporate development and capital markets experience in the healthcare industry.  At Juniper, he advises healthcare organizations on strategic growth initiatives, including mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, and divestitures.

Prior to joining Juniper, Farley was Vice President of Strategic Growth and Development at Lifepoint Health, where he led numerous transactions with academic medical centers and health systems and supported the company’s evolution into a diversified healthcare delivery network. Earlier in his career, he worked in institutional fixed income at Robert W. Baird & Co., Morgan Keegan & Co., and J.C. Bradford & Co. Farley holds an MBA from Vanderbilt University’s Owen Graduate School of Management.