Jerry Sokol > McDermott Will & Emery LLP > Miami, United States > Lawyer Profile

The team at McDermott Will & Emery LLP displays ‘exceptional depth‘ as it advises a host of tech companies, private equity funds, hospitals, and ambulatory and surgical care clients, handling partnerships between service providers and digital tech companies, intellectual property, and governance issues. Jerry Sokol leads the team from Miami as the global head of the healthcare group, while Gary Scott Davis advises major health insurance companies on healthcare joint ventures and reimbursement transactions. In the Chicago office, Bernadette Broccolo has longstanding expertise in issues surrounding healthcare IT and compliance programs for academic medical centers, while Kerrin Slattery is adept at advising health systems and hospitals on transactional matters. Also based in Chicago, Sandra DiVarco is particularly adept at representing clients in restructurings and the legal aspects of clinical issues, and Monica Wallace exhibits both regulatory and transactional expertise when advising on Medicare and Medicaid enrolment, fraud and abuse matters. Charles Buck leads the Boston practice, and primarily handles healthcare transactions, while associate Gregory Fosheim supports the team from Illinois, contributing his expertise in outbreak responses, investment initiatives in clinical research and pharmaceutical procurement.

With its full-service healthcare offering across contentious and non-contentious matters, McDermott Will & Emery LLP is a go-to choice for clients across the healthcare insurance sector, including major healthcare providers, private equity funds, and hospital groups, who seek the firm out for its ‘top-notch‘ healthcare insurers team. In Washington DC, Jeremy Earl advises health insurers on federal and state regulatory matters, as well as ACA market reform compliance, while Kate McDonald focuses her practice on state and federal regulatory and licensure compliance. On the contentious side, former federal healthcare fraud prosecutor Ankur Goel specializes in representing health industry clients in False Claims Act and Medicare Advantage litigation matters. Jerry Sokol, based in Miami, leads the overall practice. Also in Miami is transactional specialist Gary Scott Davis, concentrating on managed care mergers, joint ventures, and contractual matters. Other key names include Chicago’s Lisa Mazur and Eric Zimmerman, both in DC. Jason Caron and Kevin Miller left the firm in 2022, while Brian Stimson departed in September 2023.