Beth Evans Vessel

Partner

Practices

Industry

Healthcare & Life Sciences

Beth Evans Vessel

+1.615.850.8867

Overview

Beth Vessel is a member of Holland & Knight's Healthcare Section and a co-leader of the Healthcare Transactions practice group. Ms. Vessel knows how to structure and negotiate deals, focusing extensively on physician and provider joint ventures. She regularly handles mergers, acquisitions, divestitures and joint ventures, as well as private securities offerings, primarily in the healthcare industry. She represents the nation's largest operator of ambulatory surgery centers in connection with acquisitions, divestitures, development transactions and physician syndications.

Clients also rely on her to advise them on antitrust law related to due diligence issues, pre- and post-transaction conduct and general compliance.

Ms. Vessel has assisted clients with numerous pre-merger notification filings under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act. Client interaction and structuring creative solutions to complex problems are what she values most about her work.

Clients from the following areas call upon Ms. Vessel for her advice and counsel:

diagnostic imaging/oncology
surgery centers
physician practices
hospitals
behavioral health

Representative Experience

Represented United Surgical Partners International (USPI) in connection with its acquisition of a controlling interest in 22 ambulatory surgery centers in Arizona, Colorado and Maryland through a joint venture with another urology network
Represented USPI in its acquisition of Audubon Surgery Center and assisted in structuring the transaction and in getting the center licensed and enrolled in governmental payer programs
Represented USPI in its acquisition of interests in Bristol Surgery Center in East Tennessee
Represented USPI in the acquisition of an interest in multi-specialty surgery center in New Jersey
Represented USPI in the acquisition of Borland Groover's two locations of Jacksonville Center for Endoscopy
Represented USPI in its joint venture with an affiliate of Adventist Health System/Sunbelt, a Florida not-for-profit corporation, to open new surgery centers in Central Florida

Represented Vertava Health in connection with the sale of its operations in Ohio, Massachusetts and Texas to OMT Addiction Centers
Represented Acadia Healthcare in its $1.3 billion acquisition of CRC Health Group, a leading provider of treatment services related to substance abuse and other addiction and behavioral disorders
Represented an owner/operator of behavioral health programs in its acquisition of an Indiana treatment center for women with eating disorders
Represented a behavioral health programs owner/operator in its acquisition of an eating disorder treatment center in Ohio
Assisted a behavioral health programs operator in the acquisition of a treatment center for women that treats eating disorders, anxiety, depression, trauma and obsessive-compulsive disorder
Represented Odyssey Behavioral Healthcare in the acquisition of Clearview Treatment Programs in Venice Beach, California

Served as counsel to The Health Care Authority of the City of Anniston, Alabama, in its $25 million acquisition of Stringfellow Memorial Hospital
Represented Duke LifePoint in its $483 million acquisition of Marquette General Hospital in Michigan
Represented Mississippi Baptist Health System in its merger with Baptist Memorial Healthcare, resulting in a combined system of 21 hospitals with $2.5 billion in revenues
Provided the University of Kentucky transaction structure guidance, contract and deal negotiation, and anti-trust and healthcare analysis in forming its joint venture with KD Health
Assisted RCCH HealthCare Partners in a healthcare information technology (IT) transaction involving the acquisition of a medical billing and revenue cycle management company

Represented Radiation Business Solutions in connection with a restructuring of its operations in Alaska
Advised a leading medical services provider in its acquisition of a Hawaii-based cancer practice from physician-owners

Credentials

Education

The University of Chicago Law School, J.D., with honors
Vanderbilt University, B.A., Mathematics; Economics, summa cum laude

Bar Admissions/Licenses

Tennessee

Memberships

Nashville Bar Association
Tennessee Bar Association
American Bar Association
American Health Law Association
National Multiple Sclerosis Society, Volunteer
Former Girl Scout Troop Leader
Second Harvest Food Bank, Volunteer

Honors & Awards

The Best Lawyers in America guide, Antitrust Law, 2023-2025; Mergers and Acquisitions Law, 2019-2025; Health Care Law, 2025
Martindale Hubbell AV rated
2023 Lipscomb Academy Alumni Award