McDermott Will & Emery LLP

Bernadette Broccolo

Bernadette M. Broccolo has been counseling health industry organizations for more than 37 years on leading-edge health industry relationship formation and realignments. Bernadette focuses her practice on industry matters related to the following: Development of provider network strategies for responding to health reform Big data strategy development and implementation to support and accelerate innovation in health care delivery and payment biomedical research and discovery Electronic health information networks and exchanges Collaborations to support translational research and personalized medicine Health information technology acquisitions Comprehensive programs for human subject, animal and bench research Conflict of interest compliance and overall corporate compliance programs Her areas of concentration include privacy, technology contracting, corporate governance, human subject protection and federal taxation of exempt organizations. Bernadette speaks and writes frequently on emerging health care topics of importance to her clients and the industry.

Kerrin Slattery

With a diverse transaction practice focused on hospitals, health systems, investors and other healthcare industry participants throughout the country, Kerrin B. Slattery has earned a reputation for excellence. Her significant experience across a wide range of health industry transactions, including mergers, acquisitions, affiliations, joint ventures and system restructurings involving nonprofit hospitals and health systems, academic medical centers, post-acute providers, large medical groups and their investors, makes her a valuable partner to healthcare leaders working to implement strategy, drive innovation and operate in a highly-regulated and rapidly evolving landscape. Kerrin manages large-scale transactions, frequently leading teams of experienced practitioners with unique health industry knowledge, such as antitrust, employee benefits, environmental, executive compensation, privacy and security, digital health, real estate, fraud and abuse, and white collar. In addition, Kerrin regularly instructs clients on corporate and regulatory compliance matters, including state and federal regulations uniquely applicable to healthcare entities. She also works with numerous Catholic healthcare organizations and non-Catholic organizations in the unique structuring and operation issues related to the intersection of corporate and Canon laws governing Catholic sponsored entities. Kerrin is also a respected member of the leadership team at McDermott. She currently serves on the management committee and previously held the role of partner-in-charge of the Firm’s Chicago Health Industry Advisory Group. Kerrin was also an adjunct professor of law at Loyola University Chicago School of Law. Kerrin is a practice area leader for the hospitals and health systems practice.

Christopher Jedrey

Partner Chris Jedrey represents nonprofit and for-profit provider and health plan clients in merger, acquisition, affiliation, and joint venture transactions; sales of nonprofit assets and operations to for-profit companies; and conversions from taxable to tax-exempt status. He represents academic medical centers for a variety of matters, including clinical network development, clinical research issues and faculty practice plan structures. For further details of Chris' biography, please view McDermott website: https://www.mwe.com/en/team/j/jedrey-christopher-m

Gary Scott Davis

Gary Scott Davis, PA, advises clients on issues concerning managed care, including emerging health benefit plans, strategic restructurings and reorganizations, dispositions, mergers, joint ventures and contractual matters. The Florida Bar Board of Legal Specialization and Education recognizes Gary as a Board Certified Health Law Attorney. Gary is a nationally recognized speaker on organizational and reimbursement transactions relating to managed health care, health care contracting and joint ventures. He is also a published author of numerous writings on managed care. Please visit McDermott website for full biography: https://www.mwe.com/people/davis-gary-scott/

Gregory Fosheim

Gregory E. Fosheim provides counsel on a wide array of corporate, transactional and regulatory compliance matters across the healthcare and life sciences industry. Leveraging his vast public health background and insight, he advises clients on healthcare fraud and abuse risks, Medicare, Medicaid and private payor billing, as well as clinical research and laboratory compliance in connection with federal grants. He also represents hospitals and health systems in all transactional matters, particularly those with regulatory, licensing, accreditation and policy considerations. Please visit McDermott website for full biography: https://www.mwe.com/people/fosheim-gregory-e/

Sandra DiVarco

Partner Sandra (Sandy) M. DiVarco focuses her practice on the representation of hospitals and health systems. She has counseled health care facility and system clients regarding all aspects of health law transactions and health system restructurings. In addition to maintaining an active transactional practice, Sandy has a deep knowledge of regulatory, licensing and accreditation issues of particular concern to health care providers in today’s heightened enforcement climate. Sandy regularly advises clients on the legal aspects of clinical regulatory issues and policy/procedure and operational matters. A significant component of her practice involves assisting health care provider clients across the United States with regulatory, licensure and accreditation issues, including state-level and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) survey responses, formulation of successful plans of correction, Joint Commission complaint responses and Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA)/regulatory investigations. Drawing on her experience as a registered nurse, and holding a current license in the state of Illinois, Sandy brings a pragmatic perspective and first-hand knowledge of health care operations to these complex and mission-critical matters. For further details of Sandra's biography, please view McDermott website: https://www.mwe.com/people/divarco-sandra-m/

Monica Wallace

Partner Monica A. Wallace focuses her practice on complex regulatory and transactional counseling to health care organizations, including health systems, hospitals, ambulatory surgery centers, physician groups, dental providers, integrated delivery systems, academic medical centers, DMEPOS and pharmaceutical manufacturers and suppliers, home health agencies, and venture capital and private equity firms and their health-related portfolio companies. Monica concentrates her regulatory practice on health care fraud and abuse, Medicare and Medicaid enrollment, reimbursement and billing, legal assessments and audits, compliance programs, and other general regulatory matters including licensure, survey/certification and accreditation. Her transactional practice includes mergers, acquisitions and affiliations, divestitures, hospital/physician joint ventures and corporate reorganization. For further details of Monica's biography, please view McDermott website: https://www.mwe.com/people/wallace-monica/