Keith has broad experience and is a recognized practitioner in the hospitality sector. He represents numerous owners, operators and developers in their acquisition development activity, financing management agreements, retail leasing and dispute resolution matters. For more than 10 years, Keith has moderated and been a panelist at the NYU International Hospitality Industry Investment Conference.

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Joe has experience executing a variety of transactions within the healthcare industry, including mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, affiliations and divestitures. He also works with clients to navigate the complex strategic and regulatory issues associated with those transactions.

He also provides guidance to clients on sector-specific regulatory issues including with respect to the practice of medicine, dentistry and physical therapy, state licensure and certificate of need, behavioral health and behavior analysis, and pharmacy and clinical laboratory matters.

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• Assisted in the sale of several physician practices, including divestitures to private equity sponsors, strategic buyers, and to hospitals and health systems
• Assisted multiple private equity firms in connection with acquisitions of veterinary medicine practices and specialty veterinary hospitals
• Assisted in the acquisition of a provider of behavior analysis and autism services

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Jim has particular knowledge in the energy industry, having represented major oil companies, natural gas developers, renewable fuel manufacturers, and oil field service providers in all of the aforementioned subject areas. For more than a decade, Jim has served as defense liaison counsel and as national coordinating counsel to the petroleum industry in the In re: Methyl Tertiary Butyl Ether Product Liability multi-district litigation, one of the largest and most complex mass tort product liability dockets in the country. Jim also is recognized as one of the nation’s foremost advisors on the legal issues associated with hydraulic fracturing. He is a frequent lecturer on fracking topics and has authored, contributed to or been quoted in more than 100 articles on fracking issues for such publications as Time, The Wall Street Journal, Platt’s, Reuters, and the Oil & Gas Journal.

Jim also serves as deputy general counsel to McDermott Will & Emery LLP, representing the Firm and its personnel in a variety of internal and external matters, and overseeing many of the Firm’s risk-management and risk-prevention initiatives. He is a member of the Firm’s Loss Prevention, Integrity & Compliance, New Business, and Associate Review committees.

While in law school, Jim received the Arlyn Miner Book Award for Legal Writing and was an articles editor for the Law Review. Before joining the Firm, Jim served as a law clerk to the Honorable James H. Brickley, former Chief Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court.

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• Served as co-lead trial counsel in Plainview Water District v. ExxonMobil (N.Y. Supreme, Nassau County), which was tried over nine weeks; won a complete defense verdict
• Obtained, on behalf of large petroleum company and other petroleum company defendants, one of the first decisions in the United States to dismiss MTBE product liability claims on federal preemption grounds, and the first decision in New York to dismiss consumer fraud claims based on the use of MTBE in gasoline
• Served as trial and litigation counsel to an international petroleum company in Turner v. Chevron (C.D. CA) and Kelecseny v. Chevron (S.D. Fla.), putative class actions based on alleged property damage caused by the use of ethanol to gasoline; won full dismissal in Turner and defeated class certification in Kelecseny
• Served as lead trial counsel in Atkins v. Exxon Mobil Corporation (N.Y. Supreme, Dutchess), a mass tort environmental and personal injury case involving more than 1,100 plaintiffs; won a complete dismissal after two-day Lone Pine evidentiary hearing
• Served as lead trial counsel to a cancer biotech company in a research fraud and breach of contract case; won a complete dismissal of claims and prevailed on fraud counterclaims against the plaintiff university

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• Represented WindRose Health Investors, LLC in acquisitions and follow-on financing matters for various portfolio companies, including Bluestone Physician Services, Caregiver, Kolmac Clinic, Lykan Bioscience, RevHealth, Trumpet Behavioral Health, and Workplace Options
• Represented Comvest Partners in acquisitions and follow-on financing matters for various portfolio companies, including Engage2Excel and Your Behavioral Health
• Represented a leading private credit lender in connection with the negotiation and documentation of a $562 million senior secured credit facility provided to an industry-leading physician practice management platform for fertility care
• Represented a leading private credit lender in the cross-border bond financing of $350 million in term notes and $50 million in variable notes that were issued to a subsidiary of a leading pharmaceutical company that focuses on developing treatments for substance use disorders and serious mental illnesses
• Represented the administrative agent and lead lender in connection with the negotiation and documentation of a $310 million senior secured credit facility to finance the ongoing operations of a nationwide veterinary physician practice management platform
• Represented the administrative agent and lead lender in connection with the negotiation and documentation of a $252.5 million senior secured credit facility to finance the acquisition and ongoing operations of the owner and operator of several veterinary hospitals in the Mid-Atlantic and New England regions
• Represented the administrative agent and lead lender in connection with the negotiation and documentation of a $190 million senior secured credit facility to finance a private equity fund’s acquisition of a Texas-based home health, hospice, and rehabilitation service company with operations in Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas
• Represented the administrative agent and lead lender in connection with the negotiation and documentation of a $119 million senior secured credit facility to capitalize a single asset continuation fund backing a leading global clinical research organization
• Represented a private credit fund in connection with the negotiation and documentation of an $85 million senior secured credit facility to finance a private equity fund’s acquisition of a health information and technology company
• Represented Prime Healthcare Services, Inc., a leading national managed care company, in its issuance of $1.5 billion in senior secured notes pursuant to Rule 144A and Regulation S
• Represented a leading diversified industrial company in its $1 billion senior secured revolving and term loan credit facilities and its $500 million registered senior notes
• Represented Quorum Health Corporation, an operator of general acute care hospitals, in its prepackaged chapter 11 cases, which involved the restructuring of approximately $1.5 billion of funded debt and a $100 million debtor-in-possession financing facility. The restructuring ultimately resulted in the successful deleveraging of Quorum’s balance sheet by approximately $500 million. This work was awarded the Pre-Pack Restructuring of the Year – Large Markets recognition as part of Global M&A Network’s 13^th Annual Turnaround Atlas Awards
• Represented Output Services Group, Inc. (OSG), a leading provider of print and digital payment solutions, in its prepackaged chapter 11 cases, which involved the restructuring of approximately $750 million of funded debt and a $50 million debtor-in-possession financing facility. The successful restructuring took place pursuant to a restructuring support agreement signed by approximately 87% of OSG’s prepetition first lien lenders that eliminated approximately $550 million of their funded debt obligations. This work received the Large Turnaround of the Year award at the Turnaround Management Association’s 2024 Chicago/Midwest Chapter Awards
• Represented Gulf Coast Health Care, LLC, an operator of 28 skilled nursing facilities, in its chapter 11 cases, including in connection with its $25 million debtor-in-possession financing facility
• Represented Furie Operating Alaska, an upstream oil and gas producer, in its chapter 11 cases, including in connection with its $25 million debtor-in-possession financing facility
• Represented firearms distributor United Sporting Companies, Inc. in its chapter 11 cases, including in connection with its $15 million debtor-in-possession financing facility

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David also specializes in representing investors in the acquisition and disposition of private investment fund interests, both on a primary basis and in secondary market transactions as well as advising investment professionals in connection with their employment arrangements with fund sponsors. He advises on the organization and documentation of internal firm arrangements and has also worked on a variety of other corporate transactional matters, such as strategic management company investments, emerging company representations and venture capital transactions.

David maintains an active pro bono practice counseling local entrepreneurs and small businesses, and he regularly works with the Volunteers of Legal Service – Microenterprise Project as well as New York Law School’s Nonprofit and Small Business Clinic.

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While in law school, Chris served as an editor for the Yale Journal of International Law and was a fellow at the China Law Center and was also a co-president of the Law and Africa Society. Prior to law school, he attended Peking University as a CSC Scholar, where he studied Chinese language and law.

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Mike is a certified public accountant. Prior to going to law school, he worked as a senior tax accountant for a Big Four accounting firm. While in law school, he served as an extern for the Honorable Amy J. St. Eve of the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. He also worked for Northwestern’s Small Business Opportunity Center, where he assisted small business entrepreneurs on a wide variety of legal and business issues confronting their start-up enterprises.

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• Managed complex estate administrations with unique assets, including management of Internal Revenue Service estate tax audits
• Served as counsel and obtained a favorable verdict in US Tax Court for an executor who entered into a “Graegin” loan to satisfy the estate tax obligations of an illiquid estate primarily made up of a family business

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