Overview
Legal 500, UK
Today’s global healthcare marketplace is marked by unprecedented transformation and opportunity. Healthcare delivery and reimbursement is shifting toward value-based care and vertical consolidation at a rapid pace, as systems, health plans and other forward-thinking leaders join forces to tackle some of the industry’s biggest challenges. Digital health solutions are evolving the doctor-patient relationship beyond the in-person encounter—fundamentally transforming the quality and delivery of healthcare. And investors are taking notice.
If you’re doing something that’s never been done before, or looking to do something better than it’s ever been done before, we’re here to help.
We collaborate with those at the forefront of health industry innovation to foster the unique partnerships and business ventures that are transforming healthcare.
Exclusively serving the health industry, our policy and lobbying team, McDermottPlus, uses data-driven insights, experience and analytics to tackle challenges, identify alternatives, and implement strategies when clients are faced with legislative and regulatory obstacles that challenge their market objectives, business operations and opportunities.
Our services to clients are comprehensive. By building multidisciplinary, cross-border teams, we are committed to engaging with all types of healthcare organizations as a trusted, knowledgeable and innovative advisor. We serve as general or special counsel on engagement-specific bases to many of the leading organizations across the healthcare continuum:
- Hospitals, large medical groups and academic medical centers
- Health private equity funds
- Ambulatory surgery centers and their management companies
- Digital health companies
- Payors
- Physician and dental practice management companies
- Nursing home chains
- Home health agencies
- Health maintenance organizations
- Hospices
- Medical device, pharmaceutical and medical supply manufacturers and distributors
McDermott clients have the confidence to execute because they know they have the full weight of the industry’s leading healthcare law firm behind them.
McDermott is the leading healthcare law firm in the United States. The Health Industry Advisory Group is the only health practice to receive top national rankings from US News–Best Lawyers “Best Law Firms,” Chambers USA, The Legal 500 United States and Law360. The practice was also recognized by Chambers as Health Team of the Year in 2010, 2013, 2017, 2019 and 2022, and by Law360 as Health Team of the Year in 2017, 2019, 2021 and 2022. Since 2017, McDermott has taken the top spot in PitchBook’s League Tables as the most active firm for healthcare private equity.
We’re passionate about our role in shaping the alliances and clearing the paths that will lead to next-generation digital health technologies, new pharmaceuticals and superior healthcare delivery. Together, we’re pushing boundaries and knocking down barriers to usher in a new age of healthcare collaboration.
