Much of his practice is focused on working with private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies in the health care services industry with respect to the corporate and regulatory aspects of complex transactions, with a particular focus on physician practice management platforms. On the sell-side, he has extensive experience representing physician practice groups in transactions with private equity sponsors and physician practice management companies. Joel also regularly counsels hospital and post-acute provider clients on transactional and regulatory matters, including strategic joint ventures and affiliations.

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• Represented Dermatology and Skin Surgery Centers, a Battle Creek, Michigan-based dermatology practice, as lead transaction counsel in its partnership with Dermatologists of Central States, a portfolio company of Sheridan Capital Partners
• Represented Caring People, a leading CHAP-accredited home health care agency operating in New York, New Jersey and Florida as lead transaction counsel in its sale to Silver Oak Services Partners, an Illinois-based private equity fund
• Represented Washington Radiology Associates, a Washington, DC, metro-based radiology practice, as lead transaction counsel in its partnership with Solis Mammography, a portfolio company of Audax Private Equity, Boston, Massachusetts-based private equity firm
• Represented Advent International, a global private equity firm, as health care transactional counsel in the acquisition of ATI Physical Therapy, a Chicago, Illinois-based physical therapy provider operating more than 500 clinics across the country
• Represented the University of Maryland Medical System and its affiliates in connection with structuring and negotiating multiple strategic joint ventures, including urgent care centers and imaging centers
• Represented Colony NorthStar, Inc., a publicly traded real estate investment trust (REIT), as health care regulatory counsel in various health care portfolio acquisitions, joint ventures and financings, including its $4.2 billion acquisition of the outstanding shares of NYSE-traded Griffin-American Healthcare REIT II and related financing
• Represented NorthStar Healthcare Income, Inc., a non-traded public REIT, as health care regulatory counsel in various health care portfolio acquisitions, joint ventures and financings, including the acquisition and financing of a $639.3 million portfolio of continuing care retirement communities
• Represented Harvest Partners, a New York-based private equity firm, as health care transactional counsel in the acquisitions of Athletico Physical Therapy, a Chicago, Illinois-based physical therapy provider, and subsequent add-on acquisition of Accelerated Rehabilitation Centers, creating one of the largest physical therapy providers in the Midwest with more than 330 locations in eight states
• Represented Harvest Partners, a New York-based private equity firm, as health care transactional counsel in the recapitalization of VetCor Group Holdings Corp., a leading national operator of veterinary hospitals, managing 137 veterinary hospitals across 19 states
• Represented the University of Maryland Medical System in its affiliation with Upper Chesapeake Health System, which includes the 185-bed Upper Chesapeake Medical Center in Bel Air, Maryland, and the 89-bed Harford Memorial Hospital in Havre de Grace, Maryland
• Represented a private equity-backed anesthesia practice management company in the acquisition of several anesthesia physician practices
• Served as lead transaction counsel for an insurance company in the acquisition of a managed care provider network

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