Overview
Pirjin Laser is a skilled healthcare transactions attorney based in Holland & Knight's Nashville office, where she provides strategic counsel to clients navigating complex transactions in the healthcare industry.
Ms. Laser has extensive experience structuring and negotiating recapitalizations, leveraged buyouts, mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures and divestitures involving hospitals and health systems, ambulatory surgery centers, outpatient care providers, physician practices, behavioral healthcare facilities and other healthcare platforms. With deep industry knowledge across specialties such as gastroenterology, dermatology, physical therapy, optometry and ophthalmology, Ms. Laser helps clients execute sophisticated deals and ensure compliance with healthcare regulatory laws. Her ability to anticipate challenges and develop innovative transaction structures makes her a trusted advisor to private equity firms, healthcare operators and investors.
In addition to her legal practice, Ms. Laser is a member of Holland & Knight's Women's Initiative and the Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) Affinity Group. She also has experience serving on the boards of several nonprofit organizations in Nashville and Ohio.
Prior to joining Holland & Knight, Ms. Laser gained valuable experience as a corporate associate in the Cincinnati office of a national law firm, where – in addition to corporate and commercial transactions – she assisted clients in a wide range of corporate governance matters.
Representative Experience
- Represented HCA Healthcare Inc. (NYSE: HCA), one of the nation's leading healthcare providers, in the acquisition of Pinnacle Surgery Center, a Colorado-based leader in advanced surgical care, through its affiliate Surgery Ventures, a surgery center pioneer
- Represented United Surgical Partners International, the largest ambulatory surgery platform in the country and a subsidiary of Tenet Healthcare Corp. (NYSE: THC), in its strategic partnership with Choice Care Surgery Center, an outpatient surgery center in Texas
- Represented AdventHealth, a Seventh-day Adventist nonprofit healthcare system, in its joint venture with Neurosurgery One, a Colorado-based premier specialty medical practice with more than 50 providers
- Represented Birmingham Heart Clinic, a leading provider of comprehensive cardiovascular care in Alabama, in its sale to U.S. Heart & Vascular, a leading national provider of support services to cardiovascular physician practices and backed by Ares Management Corp. (NYSE: ARES) and Rubicon Founders
- Represented a private equity-backed orthodontic platform in its add-on acquisition of a Washington-based orthodontic practice for kids and adults
- Represented AleraCare, a leading provider of infusion treatments and pharmacy services for high-need and medically complex populations and a portfolio company of Hildred Capital Management, in its sale of AleraCare Pharmacy to Revelation Pharma, a national network of 503A and 503B compounding pharmacies providing innovative, quality and personalized pharmaceutical preparations and services as a portfolio company of Osceola Capital Management
- Represented one the largest ambulatory surgery platforms in the country and a subsidiary of a publicly traded diversified healthcare services company in its acquisition of a majority interest in a California-based endoscopy center
- Represented Smile Doctors, an orthodontic-focused dental support organization and a portfolio company of Thomas H. Lee Partners, in its add-on acquisition of McReath Orthodontics, a Wisconsin-based orthodontics practice
- Represented a private equity-backed orthodontic dental service organization in its add-on acquisition of a Texas-based orthodontics practice
Credentials
- Belmont University College of Law, J.D.
- Middle Tennessee State University, B.B.A., Finance, Education
- Middle Tennessee State University, B.S., Pre-Law
- Ohio
- Tennessee
- Nashville Bar Foundation Leadership Forum, Class of 2025
- Adventure Science Center, Board of Trustees, 2022-Present
- tnAchieves, Mentor, 2019-2024
- Belmont University College of Law American Inn of Court, 2019-2020
- Nashville Bar Association, Young Lawyers Division, Board of Directors, 2018-2023; Diversity Committee, 2018-2019
- Center for Respite Care Inc., Board Member, 2018
- Junior League of Cincinnati, 2017-2018
- Tennessee Kurdish Community Council, Vice President and Board of Directors, 2009-2013
- American Center for Outreach, Policy Fellow, 2013
- American Health Law Association
- Tennessee Bar Association
- American Bar Association
- The Best Lawyers in Americaguide, Ones to Watch, Nashville Health Care Law, 2021-2025
- Nashville's Top 30 Under 30, Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, 2019
- Young Leaders Council, 2020
- United Way of Greater Cincinnati Board Orientation and Leadership Development Program, 2015