Maxwell Karasek
Senior Associate
Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP
Related services and key industries
Biography
Maxwell Karasek’s national practices focuses on negotiating, drafting and executing complex healthcare transactional matters for both strategic and financial buyers and sellers particularly in the academic medical center space, aided with a deep knowledge of the healthcare regulatory analyses essential to identifying, navigating and mitigating the risks inherent to such transactions.
A specific and noted strength by clients is Maxwell’s thoughtful project management and responsive communication, which are essential to ensuring that all matters are handled effectively and efficiently. On each matter, Maxwell takes the necessary time to understand each client’s goals and risk profile, to ensure their individual needs are understood and met.
Maxwell regularly represents academic medical centers, large health systems, healthcare industry investors, large specialty physician groups and other providers in connection with complex affiliations, mergers, acquisitions (including bolt-on financial transactions), corporate reorganizations, divestitures (including second sales), joint ventures, long-term management agreements, professional services agreements, facility coverage agreements, obtaining representation and warranty insurance and negotiating and executing healthcare supplier and vendor agreements of all types and spends.
Professional experience
Collapse allJD, cum laude, Washington University School of Law, 2016
BA, magna cum laude, University of Missouri-Columbia, 2012
- Illinois State Bar
- Missouri State Bar
- Represented a large health system in the restructuring of an existing joint-venture outpatient imaging department.
- Represented a large health system in the acquisition of an existing academic medical center, including restructuring the existing affiliation.
- Served as regulatory counsel for the evaluation of an acquisition of a community hospital by a large health system.
- Served as regulatory counsel for the evaluation of a potential merger between two large health systems.
- Represented a large health system in the acquisition of an ambulatory surgery center, cath lab and physician practice.
- Represented large oncology practice in the renegotiation of its management services agreement with a large national provider of practice management services.
- Represented orthopedic, anesthesiology and GI practice groups in sales to existing private-equity investment platforms.
- Represented a large urology group in a second sale of an existing platform investment to a second financial investor.
- Represented anesthesia and cardiology existing platform investments in the acquisition of additional physician practices.
- Represented an academic medical center in the sale of its pediatric assets to its existing affiliated health system, including the drafting and negotiation of the related affiliation agreements.
- Represented large health systems in the acquisition of numerous physician practices.
- Represented a then, newly formed academic medical center in its day-to-day legal needs, including negotiating numerous vendor contracts, in connection with its transition from its previous for-profit owner and operator.
- Contributor, "CMS proposes Stark Law liberalizations", Health Law Pulse, July 13, 2015
- American Bar Association, Health Law Section
- American Health Lawyers Association
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