Douglas Swill is a partner in the Corporate Practice Group in the firm's Chicago office.

Areas of Practice

Doug is a nationally recognized healthcare attorney who advises on strategic transactions and regulatory matters. During his career, Doug has led innovative and high-stakes corporate combinations for health systems, hospitals, medical groups and other healthcare entities. In addition to his transactional work, Doug is valued for his counsel on existing and emerging regulatory and corporate governance matters.

According to Chambers USA, sources describe Doug as a “very practical and business-savvy” attorney who “regularly acts for nonprofit healthcare entities as well as for-profit organizations, advising on big-ticket transactions and regulatory matters such as Anti-Kickback Statute compliance and issues arising from clinical integrations.” Client service is a point of emphasis for Doug, and he prides himself on being responsive, easy to work with and eager to share his extensive healthcare knowledge with clients seeking his counsel.

Healthcare Transactions and Deals

Doug facilitates complex transactions involving both for-profit and not-for-profit companies, including private equity investment in provider entities. As part of his merger and acquisitions and joint venture work, Doug advised on two of the larger health system combinations in the country as well as scores of other health system and provider entity strategic transactions. He also has advised primary and specialty care medical groups and other healthcare companies in their pursuit of platform and tuck-in transactions with private equity backed management service companies.

Further, Doug advised a major public university in its affiliation with a large not-for-profit health system in establishing the world’s first engineering-based college of medicine. He is also a leader in both innovative and traditional laboratory and laboratory management transactions.

Health Systems and Medical Groups

Doug represents hospital systems and medical groups in negotiations to buy and sell physician practices, including advising on corporate structuring for physician integration and physician compensation arrangements, such as production-based and value-based methodologies. He is experienced in organizing and implementing integrated medical groups, establishing governance structures, consolidating physician groups, and creating physician management organizations.

A Multitude of Skillsets and Experience

In addition to his transactional work, Doug regularly counsels clients, whether in connection with a strategic transaction or on an independent basis, on:

• Stark and anti-kickback laws
• Affordable Care Act
• Physician and other clinical integration strategies
• Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement issues and audits
• Overpayment issues
• Compliance programs
• Voluntary disclosures
• Due diligence reviews
• Complex contracts