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, 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. 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
