Overview
Brad Dennis advises healthcare enterprises on complex transactions and regulatory compliance. He represents a wide range of clients, including nonprofit and for-profit health systems, academic medical centers, and private equity firms and their platform companies. Brad routinely provides transactional representation to such clients in connection with strategic affiliations, mergers, equity and asset acquisitions, joint ventures and other transactional matters.
Brad also has experience on a wide range of regulatory matters affecting hospitals and health systems, including physician contracting, healthcare compliance programs, compliance with the Anti-Kickback Statute, Stark Law, Medicare reimbursement and facility licensing.
Brad is a frequent author on healthcare matters. He completed a judicial internship with the Honorable Chief Judge William Conley of the US District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin. While in law school, he was managing editor of the Wisconsin Law Review. Prior to attending law school, Brad worked for the State of Michigan focusing on business licensing and regulatory matters.
Results
- Served as transaction and health regulatory counsel to nonprofit healthcare systems in connection with membership substitution transactions
- Served as transaction counsel on multiple whole-hospital and service line joint ventures between nonprofit healthcare systems
- Assisted counsel with Stark Law and Anti-Kickback Statute guidance in connection with the acquisition of a hospital on behalf of a nonprofit health system
- Represented several private equity-backed practice management companies in the acquisitions of vein treatment, podiatry and women’s health practices
- Represented a private equity firm as health regulatory counsel in the acquisition of a leading imaging and diagnostic provider
Recognitions
- The Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch in America, Healthcare Law, Chicago, 2022 to 2024
- BTI, Client Service All-Stars, 2022
Community
- Member of the American Health Lawyers Association
- Member of the Illinois Association of Healthcare Attorneys (IAHA), and member of the IAHA Annual Symposium Planning Committee
Credentials
Education
University of Wisconsin Law School, JD, cum laude, 2014
Michigan State University, BA, 2011
Admissions
Wisconsin
Illinois
Languages
English
