Christopher M. Jedrey is a partner in the law firm of McDermott Will & Emery LLP, based in the Firm’s Boston office. He is partner-in-charge of its Boston Health practice, and national co-chairman of its Academic Medical Center practice.
Chris represents providers and HMO clients in mergers, acquisitions, and joint ventures, sales of non-profit assets and operations to for-profit companies, and conversions from taxable to tax-exempt status. He represents academic medical centers for a variety of matters, including strategic affiliations, clinical research and faculty practice plans. Chris advises hospitals, colleges, universities, museums and other tax-exempt organizations on structuring executive compensation plans.
Chris’ notable projects include: advising on the establishment and operation of Atrius Health, a system of five nonprofit group practices with approximately 600,000 patients; advising University of Florida College of Medicine on the formation and financing of Florida Proton Therapy Institute; advising Partners HealthCare System on the merger of seven faculty practice foundations into Brigham and Women's Physicians Organization; acting as special counsel to Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Massachusetts on its division into an insurance company and an HMO; advising Sarah Cannon Research Institute on regulatory issues associated with its oncology clinical trial network; advising St. Peter’s University Hospital on its academic and clinical affiliations with Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and Drexel University College of Medicine; and providing regulatory and tax advice on the formation and ongoing operations of Dana-Farber/Partners Cancer Care, a path-breaking clinical and financial collaboration for adult medical oncology services among Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and Massachusetts General Hospital.
Chris is co-chairman of the Health Care Law Subcommittee of the ABA Exempt Organizations Committee, a member of the Massachusetts Attorney General Advisory Committee, Fellow of the American Bar Foundation, and a member of the editorial boards of BNA Medical Research Law & Policy and Taxation of Exempts. He is ranked in the 1st tier of healthcare lawyers in the Chambers USA Guide and was selected for Nightingales Healthcare News’ 2008 list of “Outstanding Hospital Lawyers. He is also ranked in The Best Lawyers in America (2009). ” He is a frequent lecturer and author on regulatory, tax and governance matters, and he is a member of the Graduate Tax Program faculty at Boston University School of Law. He is also a fellow of the Massachusetts Historical Society.
While at the University of Massachusetts, Chris was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He was a Liberal Arts Fellow at Harvard Law School in 1980-1981.
Education
- Boston College Law School, J.D., 1984
- Harvard University, Ph.D., 1977
- Harvard University, M.A., 1972
- University of Massachusetts Amherst, B.A., 1971
