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Maria Currier Named Chair of Holland & Knight's National Health Law and Life Sciences Team
 
 April 22, 2008
 
Maria T. Currier- Miami

MIAMI – Maria Currier, a partner in Holland & Knight's Miami office, was named chair of the firm's national Health Law and Life Sciences Team, one of the largest health law and life sciences teams in the U.S.

"Maria's wealth of experience in the health care industry and her demonstrated leadership skills will benefit our clients in this important and growing practice area," said Jim McDermott, chair of Holland & Knight's Business Section.

Currier is a member of the firm's Business Section and has more than 20 years of experience serving clients in the health care industry. Her practice focuses on general corporate matters, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, commercial transactions, health care regulatory matters, fraud and abuse, managed care and international business ventures for health care clients. Currier has counseled clients on Medicare & Medicaid reimbursement and regulatory issues, HIPAA, federal and state fraud and abuse matters, Stark-related matters, corporate compliance plans, false claims act compliance and physician incentive arrangements.

Currier is Board Certified in Health Law as recognized by the Florida Bar. She has been recognized in health care law by The Best Lawyers in America and Chambers USA.

About Holland & Knight's Health Law and Life Sciences Team: The Health Law and Life Sciences Team at Holland & Knight takes a comprehensive, multidisciplinary approach to serving the needs of pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device manufacturers. Attorneys have the range of legal experience essential to dealing effectively, throughout a product’s life cycle, with today’s increasingly complex regulatory and policy challenges. This experience includes business planning and startup; finance and M&A; health care regulatory matters, including public and private reimbursement issues; federal and state legislation/appropriations; intellectual property; litigation (including mass tort defense) and strategic communications.

Contact: Kristin Ricca (813) 769-4335

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