Lisa Katz is a senior associate whose practice concentrates in the health industry, finance and corporate M&A matters.
On behalf of healthcare provider clients, Ms. Katz interprets a broad range of regulatory and corporate compliance issues. These include privacy of health information, Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement, licensing and fraud and abuse issues faced by hospitals, clinics, surgery centers, physician groups and assisted living facilities. She regularly reviews and updates various licensure submissions, medical staff bylaws and generally advises on compliance and ethics matters for large physician and hospital providers, as well as skilled nursing and other rehabilitation facilities. Prior to joining Holland & Knight, Ms. Katz worked in the general counsel's office of a large Chicago academic medical center.
Additionally, Ms. Katz is the lead associate in the documenting and closing of numerous loan transactions on behalf of the firm's regional lender clients, with specific experience relative to credit facilities within the long-term healthcare industry. Ms. Katz has also played a significant role in the negotiation, documentation and closing of credit and note sale transactions involving distressed real estate debt.
Ms. Katz also supports the firm's corporate mergers and acquisitions practice in a variety of mergers and acquisitions and other corporate finance transactions, many involving the healthcare sector and not-for-profit entities. Recently, she was the lead associate for a $40 million transaction creating a more efficient healthcare delivery system involving the integration of a clinic with 90 physicians and midlevel providers and 400 employees, with a large community hospital.
At Holland & Knight, Ms. Katz currently co-chairs the Chicago office's Women’s Initiative program, and she provides pro bono legal services to organizations servicing the underprivileged. She recently co-chaired the Chicago Bar Association Young Lawyer Section's Committee on Hospital and Health Law, and she is currently on the executive committee for the Medical Research Junior Board Foundation, part of Children's Memorial Hospital and an affiliate junior board to the Medical Research Institute Council, which supports pediatric medical research.