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Jerry Sokol

Work Department
Healthcare
Position
Jerry J. Sokol concentrates his national practice on the business aspects of healthcare law with an emphasis on mergers and acquisitions, private equity and various contractual arrangements in the healthcare industry. Jerry is the global head of McDermott’s Healthcare Practice Group.
Jerry has a robust healthcare private equity practice with a focus on leveraged buyout transactions. Jerry and his team are uniquely qualified to perform the acquisition and finance components of these transactions, as well as the healthcare-specific due diligence and regulatory aspects of deals.
Please visit McDermott website for full biography: https://www.mwe.com/people/sokol-jerry-j/
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Healthcare > Health insurers
McDermott Will & Emery LLP covers a broad array of healthcare matters, including a stream of large-scale M&A deals and complex restructurings, federal investigations, and complex disputes. Managed care organizations, not-for-profit providers, VC funds, and PE firms as well as cornerstones of the health insurance market routinely turn to the sizable team, which is led by Miami-based Jerry Sokol and includes DC-based Jeremy Earl, who is reputed for his transactional work, complex regulatory counseling, and advice on launches of new managed care arrangements. Also in the DC office is Kate McDonald, who specializes in federal program engagement, advising clients in connection to Medicaid Managed Care and various areas of Medicare, and back in Miami, Gary Davis tackles work in the field of managed care. Based in New York, Gregory Mitchell‘s practice spans managed care and reimbursement matters, Mary Moll Alexandre specializes in managed care in DC, and over in Boston, Matthew Perreault is a key contact for complex transactions, value-based care arrangements, and fraud and abuse. Chicago-based Monica Wallace focuses on delivering regulatory and transactional guidance, as does Brad Dennis.
United States > Healthcare > Service providers
The ‘knowledgeable, experienced, creative’ offering at McDermott Will & Emery LLP is well-known for its breadth, spanning physician practice management, cybersecurity, and government investigation-related matters. The team is active across the women’s health, telehealth, and optometry industries. Jerry Sokol heads the practice from the Miami office, with his primary area of focus being private equity-related healthcare work, while Gary Scott Davis handles the full spectrum of managed care mandates, including joint ventures and reorganizations. Sitting in Boston, Christopher Jedrey
often represents academic medical centers and major system operators in complex transactions. In the Chicago office, Sandra DiVarco routinely advises health systems and hospitals on restructurings and accreditation-related matters, Gregory Fosheim is well-known for his specialism in regulatory mandates concerning diagnostic and fertility laboratories, and Monica Wallace is well-placed to assist with Medicare enrolment, and fraud and abuse issues. Regularly assisting non-profit hospitals and post-acute providers, Kerrin Slattery
specializes in healthcare transactions, with a strong focus on joint ventures and affiliations. Taylor Hood and Rosalyn Broad are both key figures within the Houston and Austin offices respectively; Hood routinely advises clients on managed care contracting and the corporate aspects of medicine, while Broad is adept at handling anti-kickback and HIPAA work, in addition to advising on both Medicaid and Medicare reimbursement rules.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Healthcare > Health insurers
- Healthcare > Life sciences
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: middle-market ($500m-999m)
- Media, technology and telecoms > Outsourcing
- Healthcare > Service providers
- Tax > US taxes: contentious
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
Firm Rankings
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: design
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Energy > Energy regulation: electric power
- Tax > Financial products
- Labor and employment > Immigration
- Tax > International tax
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: toxic tort
- Energy > Renewable/alternative power
- Intellectual property > Trademarks: non-contentious (including prosecution, portfolio management and licensing)
- Labor and employment > Workplace and employment counseling
- Insurance > Advice to insurers
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Labor and employment > ERISA litigation
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- Government > Government contracts
- Insurance > Insurance: non-contentious
- Labor and employment > Labor and employment disputes (including collective actions)
- Labor and employment > Labor-management relations
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (full coverage)
- Intellectual property > Patents: prosecution (including re-examination and post-grant proceedings)
- Real estate > Real estate finance
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Antitrust > Cartel
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Energy > Energy transactions: electric power
- Energy > Energy transactions: oil and gas
- Finance > Fintech
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Finance > Structured finance: derivatives and structured products
- Finance > Commercial lending
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Private equity buyouts: large deals ($500m+)
- Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
- Real estate > Real estate
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense