
Honigman is a leading business law firm based in Michigan with an international practice. Headquartered in Detroit, the firm has over 250 attorneys practicing in more than 50 different areas of concentration.
Honigman's Health Care Group is known for helping clients achieve their business goals despite the evolving challenges confronting them in health care today. Honigman regularly serves as lead counsel for hospitals and health care systems in connection affiliations and divestitures. This work involves structuring, negotiating and effectuating acquisitions, divestitures, mergers, joint operating agreements and joint ventures. It also involves providing advice on applicable federal and state law and regulations, licensure and reimbursement implications of a transaction, governance issues, employment, labor and benefit issues, contractual issues, real estate and environmental matters, information technology needs, religious issues, tax considerations and compliance matters. Honigman's hospital and health system clients include multi-state, multi-hospital systems, academic medical centers, specialty hospitals, long-term care hospitals, and community, municipal, critical access and rural hospitals. The Health Care Group also counsels other health care providers, managed care plans and physician groups on all aspects of health care law.
Honigman also has been one of the preeminent national firms in the healthcare antitrust area for many years. Its efforts have included one of the leading hospital merger cases (in which we defeated the Department of Justice) and one of the leading cases concerning HMO antitrust liability. We have represented a wide variety of hospitals, networks and physician practices in antitrust litigation, counseling, and representation before government agencies, including numerous government investigations of mergers and other affiliations, in more than 20 states. |