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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.
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Lawyer Rankings
United States > Healthcare > Service providers
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.
United States > Healthcare > Health insurers
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.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
- Healthcare > Health insurers
- Healthcare > Life sciences
- Media, technology and telecoms > Outsourcing
- Healthcare > Service providers
- Tax > US taxes: contentious
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
Firm Rankings
- Insurance > Advice to insurers
- 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
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: middle-market ($500m-999m)
- 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)
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Labor and employment > ERISA litigation
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- Insurance > Insurance: non-contentious
- Labor and employment > Labor-management relations
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Intellectual property > Patents: prosecution (including re-examination and post-grant proceedings)
- Real estate > Real estate finance
- International Trade > Trade remedies and trade policy
- Labor and employment > Workplace and employment counseling
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Antitrust > Cartel
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Energy > Energy transactions: electric power
- Energy > Energy transactions: oil and gas
- Labor and employment > Labor and employment disputes (including collective actions)
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (full coverage)
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Finance > Structured finance: derivatives and structured products
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Private equity buyouts: large deals ($500m+)
- Real estate > Real estate
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Finance > Commercial lending
- Investment fund formation and management > Alternative/hedge funds
- Government > Government contracts
- Finance > Fintech