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About the Authors:
Associate
201 North Tryon Street
Charlotte, North Carolina 28202
T: 704.373.8923
F: 704.373.8835
bwalker@mcguirewoods.com
Mr. Walker practices within the firm’s Health Care Department, concentrating on mergers, acquisitions, sales, private offerings of securities, and related transactions, including debt and private equity financing. His practice includes advising hospitals, ambulatory surgery centers, specialty hospitals, large physician group practices, and end-stage renal disease facilities on various regulatory and transactional matters.
He has represented both lenders and borrowers in various healthcare-related financing transactions, including asset-based lending and restructuring. He has assisted in the re-syndication and start up of numerous ambulatory surgery centers and hospital-physician joint ventures. He commonly lectures and writes on legal and regulatory issues affecting a wide range of health care providers.
Department
• Health Care
Practice Areas
• Health Care
• Life Sciences
• Securities & Corporate Finance
• Corporate Governance
• Mergers & Acquisitions
• Capital Markets
Education
• University of Notre Dame Law School, Notre Dame, Indiana, J.D., 2004
• Managing Editor, Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics & Public Policy, 2003-2004
• Staff Member, Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics & Public Policy, 2002-2003
• White Scholar, Thomas J. White Center on Law and Government, 2002-2004
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, B.A. History, 2001
• Morehead Scholar, John Motley Morehead Foundation, 1997-2001
Publications
• “Hospitals and Health Systems: Provider-Based Status: The Rules and Common Issues” (co-authored with Elissa Moore), Health Care Law Monthly, April 2008
• “Establishing an Ambulatory Surgery Center – A Primer from A to Z,” Becker’s ASC Review, March 2008
• “The Changing Landscape of Physicians’ Self-Referral Regulation,” Charlotte Medical News, September 2007
• “Physician Relationships — Alternatives to Joint Ventures,” Charlotte Medical News, August 2007
• “Hospital-Physician Integration Models: An Alternative to Joint Ventures” (co-authored with Scott Becker and Sarah Abraham), Health Care Law Monthly, June 2007
• Guest Columnist, Charlotte Medical News, June 2007
• “Buying from or Selling to Another Buyout Firm?” (co-authored with Rob Marks), Buyouts, November 20, 2006
• “Healthcare Financing: 10 Key Issues for Borrowers and Lenders in Healthcare Lending Transactions” (co-authored with Don Ensing), Health Care Law Monthly, June 2006
• “Pros and Cons of Secondary Private Equity Buyouts” (co-authored with Rob Marks), Private Equity Newsletter, McGuireWoods LLP, May 2006
• “Weighing the Options” (co-authored with Rob Marks),Daily Deal/The Deal, Vol. 4, No. 10, February 20-26, 2006
• “Current Trends in Private Capital Market Solutions for Small Public Companies” (co-authored with Rob Marks), Private Equity Newsletter, McGuireWoods LLP, December 2005
Speaking Engagements
• Founder, Annual Carolinas Healthcare Forum
• “Financing – The Lender’s and Borrower’s Perspectives,” 14th Annual Ambulatory Surgery Center Conference and Exhibits, October 2007
• Carolinas Healthcare Update Teleconference: Key Issues in Healthcare Provider Joint Ventures, August 2, 2007
• Panelist, “Negotiating Financing for Developing an ASC or an Expansion – A CFO, A Lawyer and An ASC Lender,” 13th Annual Ambulatory Surgery Center Conference, October 2006
• “Secondary Buyouts in Private Equity,” March 2006
Professional Affiliations
• American Health Lawyers Association
• Healthcare Financial Management Association
Civic Affiliations
• Board of Directors, Charlotte Chamber of Commerce Health Services Council
• Board of Directors, MedAssist of Mecklenburg
Admitted
• North Carolina
• Illinois
Place of Birth
• Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Associate
Bank of America Corporate Center
100 North Tryon Street, Suite 2900
Charlotte, North Carolina 28202-4011
T: 704.343.2218
F: 704.353.6164
emoore@mcguirewoods.com
Ms. Moore focuses on corporate services and transactional and regulatory matters for health care providers and companies. In this capacity, she concentrates on acquisitions, divestitures, mergers, private offerings of securities, governance and corporate formation issues, and joint ventures. She has drafted and assisted with negotiation of purchase agreements and other transaction documents, operating agreements, management agreements, lease agreements and medical director agreements. She has counseled ambulatory surgery centers, hospitals, physician groups and other health care providers with respect to Medicare and Medicaid fraud and abuse laws, the Stark Act, tax-exemption issues and general health care compliance issues.
Department
• Health Care
Practice Areas
• Health Care
Education
• Loyola University Chicago School of Law, Chicago, Illinois, J.D., 2004
• University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom, M.Sc., 2002
• Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, B.S., 2000
Honors
• Co-editor in Chief, Health Care Law Monthly, a LexisNexis Matthew Bender Publication
• Co-chair, Health and Hospital Committee, Young Lawyers Section of the Chicago Bar Association
• Editor in Chief, Annals of Health Law, Loyola University Chicago’s Health Law and Policy Law Review, 2003-2004
• Rotary Ambassadorial Scholar, 2000-2001
Publications
• “Friendly Alliances Between Gastroenterologists and Hospitals,” (Co-authored with Scott Becker and Alison Mikula), American Journal of Gastroenterology, Publication Forthcoming
• “Physician Owned Hospitals – The Best of Times and the Worst of Times,” (Co-authored with Scott Becker), Physicians Hospital Association PULSE Magazine, March 2007
• “Your Top Legal Worries for 2007,” (Co-authored with Scott Becker), Outpatient Surgery Magazine, January 2007
• “Selling a Physician-Owned Hospital – 15 Key Concepts,” (Co-authored with Scott Becker, Publication Forthcoming), Health Care Law Monthly, February 2007
• “The Application of EMTALA to Specialty Hospitals – A Review of Current Issues,” (Co-authored with Melissa Szabad), Health Care Law Monthly, August 2006
• “Evolving Health Care Issues – A Primer on Fourteen Key Issues Facing Providers,” (Co-authored with Scott Becker), Health Care Law Monthly, November 2005
• “Hospitals & Health Systems – The Best of Times and the Worst of Times,” (co-authored with Scott Becker), McGuireWoods LLP, Publication in the Journal of Healthcare Finance, November 2005
• “Physician-Hospital Joint Ventures – Current Issues & Structures,” (Co-authored with Scott Becker), McGuireWoods LLP, May 2005
• “ASCs and Related Legal Issues,” (Co-authored with Scott Becker), Publication of American Health Lawyers Association, February 2005
• “MedPac Study – A Review of Findings Released October 28-29, 2004,” (Co-authored with Scott Becker), Becker’s ASC Review, November 2004
Professional Affiliations
• American Health Lawyers Association
• Illinois Health Lawyers Association
• American Bar Association
Admitted
• Illinois 2004
Place of Birth
• Hershey, Pennsylvania
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Associate
201 North Tryon Street
Charlotte, North Carolina 28202
T: 704.373.8997
F: 704.353.6199
egilmer@mcguirewoods.com
Ms. Gilmer practices within the firm’s Mergers and Acquisitions, Securities and Corporate Services Department, as well as the Health Care Department. She concentrates on mergers, acquisitions, sales, private offerings of securities, and related transactions.
Department
• Health Care
Practice Areas
• Mergers & Acquisitions
• Health Care
• Securities & Corporate Finance
Education
• Wake Forest University School of Law, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, J.D., 2007
• Wake Forest University Babcock Graduate School of Management, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, M.B.A., 2007
• Davidson College, Davidson, North Carolina, B.S. Psychology, 2003
Admitted
• North Carolina 2007
Place of Birth
• Tampa, Florida
