Healthcare Finance

A multidisciplinary team of experienced transactional and regulatory attorneys, Holland & Knight's Healthcare Finance Team focuses on serving the needs of private equity and venture capital firms, angel investors, specialty finance companies, commercial lenders, corporate borrowers, emerging companies and startups in the healthcare industry. Our lawyers structure complex investments, acquisitions and other financings across all healthcare sectors.

Specialty finance companies and commercial lenders focused on the healthcare industry trust our experience gained from representing large healthcare companies and investors. As lead transaction counsel or special healthcare counsel, we guide clients through multiple phases that influence the structuring and negotiating of leveraged acquisitions, venture capital and growth financings. Investors and companies raising capital rely on Holland & Knight for creative solutions to the complex challenges inherent in capital transactions in the healthcare industry.

Our attorneys assist specialty finance companies and commercial lenders in structuring debt financing transactions such as senior, subordinated and mezzanine debt, asset-based loans, term loans, revolving loans and bridge loans.

Our finance and regulatory lawyers work in tandem to structure private equity and other investment transactions and assist investors with payment and reimbursement issues, fraud and abuse matters, state licensure and other compliance matters. Our experience includes double lockbox transactions in which credit facilities are secured with Medicare and Medicaid receivables. In addition to our lender-side and borrower-side experience, our healthcare finance attorneys also assist clients on sale-leaseback transactions, project finance, equipment leasing, debtor-in-possession financing and intercreditor agreements.

Healthcare Industry Insight and Acumen

As part of the largest healthcare law practice in the United States, Holland & Knight's Healthcare Finance Team comprises dozens of attorneys who have a deep understanding of the complex interplay between financing and investment transactions and complex healthcare regulatory laws.

Our healthcare finance knowledge and experience covers lenders, borrowers and investors from virtually every segment of the healthcare industry, including:

• behavioral health
• senior living and skilled nursing facilities
• hospitals and health systems
• ambulatory surgery centers
• dental practices and dental support organizations (DSOs)
• physician practices and physician practice management companies
• physical therapy
• post-acute care
• medical office buildings
• pharmacies and pharmaceutical distributors

A Full Range of Services

Holland & Knight's Healthcare Finance Team assists lenders, borrowers and investors in a broad range of finance matters, including:

• serving as special healthcare regulatory and compliance counsel on investments and commercial finance transactions
• introducing companies looking to raise capital with investors seeking opportunities and helping investors identify potential companies in which to invest
• assisting high-growth companies in achieving their funding goals
• structuring debt financing transactions such as senior, subordinated and mezzanine debt, asset-based loans, term loans, revolving loans and bridge loans
• advising on a wide range of debt securities, high-yield notes, capital market offerings, and bond and public finance transactions
• advising investors on platform-company acquisitions and dispositions, as well as "bolt-on" acquisitions
• handling dispositions of investments through sales, public offerings and recapitalizations
• assisting investors and portfolio companies with internal and government investigations, performing comprehensive due diligence, and exploring key issues and regulatory risks
• advising in other financing and leasing services, sale-leaseback transactions, project finance, equipment leasing, debtor-in-possession financing and intercreditor agreements