Gary B. Gertler represents hospitals, health care systems, managed care organizations, multi-specialty and single specialty medical groups, health care companies, ancillary management companies and other health care providers. He focuses on mergers, acquisitions and divestitures, strategic affiliations, private equity and debt transactions, hospital-affiliated group practices, joint ventures and syndications and health care regulatory and corporate matters. Gary previously served as the managing partner of the Los Angeles office.
Results
- Served as lead transaction counsel for a private for-profit hospital system’s acquisition and conversion of a nonprofit five-hospital health care system
- Served as lead transaction counsel in representing a publicly traded hospital system in its acquisition of 12 separate group practices (each between seven and 23 physicians) over a three-year period
- Served as lead transaction counsel for an esoteric clinical laboratory in connection with restructuring its governance, and preparing a private placement memorandum (PPM) that raised $71.1 million for a private equity-owned radiation oncology management company through the sale of additional equity interests
Recognitions
- The Legal 500 United States, praised as arguably the “most practical, knowledgeable legal advisor in healthcare,” 2015 to 2018
- Chambers USA, 2007- 2010 and 2013-2026
- The Best Lawyers in America, Health Care Law, 2011 to 2023
Capabilities and Industries
Regional Markets
Community
- American Health Lawyers Association
- California Society of Healthcare Attorneys
Credentials
Education
- University of Southern California Gould School of Law, JD
- University of California, Los Angeles, MPH
- University of California, Los Angeles, BS
Admissions
- California
Courts / Agencies
- US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
- US District Court for the Central District of California