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 Industry Advisory Practice Group, and national co-chairman of its Academic Medical Centers practice.
Chris represents provider 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 affiliation, clinical research and faculty practice plan matters.
Chris’ notable projects include: advising Caritas Christi, a six-hospital non-profit Catholic system, on the sale of its assets to private-equity funded Steward Health Care System, and advising the buyer on four subsequent hospital aquisitions; advising on the establishment and ongoing operations of Atrius Health, including its recent affiliation with Fallon Clinic to create a 1,000 physician/one million patient non-profit, physician-controlled system; advising Lenox Hill Hospital on its affiliation with North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System; advising Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary on its merger with Schepens Eye Research Institute; acting as special counsel to Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Massachusetts on its division into an insurance company and an HMO;advising Longy School of Music on its merger with Bard College; and providing corporate, regulatory and tax advice on the formation and ongoing operations of Dana-Farber/Brigham and Women’s Cancer Center, most recently with respect to its development of a network of community-based satellite clinics and other clinical partnerships.
Chris is a member of the Advisory Committee to the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Public Charities Division, 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 recognized by The Legal 500 United States (2011) as one of the leading lawyers in his field and ranked nationally and in Massachusetts as a transactional health care lawyer in the Chambers USA Guide (2011.) He is also ranked as one of The Best Lawyers in America (2012) in Non-Profit/Charities Law and Health and in Boston’s Best Lawyers (2011). He was named Best Lawyers 2012 Boston Health Care Lawyer of the Year. Chris is a frequent lecturer and author on regulatory, tax and governance matters. 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
