Heather Bethancourt > McDermott Will & Emery LLP > Dallas, United States > Lawyer Profile
McDermott Will & Emery LLP Offices
2501 NORTH HARWOOD STREET
SUITE 1900
DALLAS, TX
TEXAS
United States
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Heather Bethancourt
Work Department
Corporate Advisory
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Heather S. Bethancourt represents clients in business process and information technology outsourcing transactions. She has extensive experience representing healthcare systems, carriers and vendors negotiating revenue cycle management outsourcing agreements and other complex outsourcing and commercial transactions. In addition, she represents clients in strategic supply agreements, manufacturing and distribution agreements, technology licensing, technology maintenance and service agreements, technology development, cloud-computing transactions such as software as a service (SaaS) arrangements and strategic alliances. Heather also advises clients on technology and commercial contract issues that arise under other corporate transactions such as mergers and acquisitions and joint ventures, including transition services agreements. Her experience with other commercial contracts includes a human resources emphasis representing clients in independent contractor, contingent labor and recruiting services agreements and advising clients on rebadging issues in outsourcing transactions.
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Lawyer Rankings
United States > Media, technology and telecoms > Outsourcing
McDermott Will & Emery LLP has ‘fantastic negotiators and knowledge of the current market’, and clients praise its specialist knowledge of outsourcing transactions from both the buy-side and sell-side perspectives. Acting for both vendors and customers, the firm has deep experience, particularly in its Dallas office, where the bulk of its practice group resides. The lead partners are Shawn Helms and ‘industry leader’ Jason Krieser. Helms has developed niche expertise in AI-driven outsourcings, as well as deals involving cryptocurrency and blockchain. Krieser is also knowledgeable in AI and blockchain matters, and has notable experience in digital health, telecoms, RPA arrangements, IoT, and e-commerce.The firm’s active involvement in the healthcare space Heather Bethancourt and Caitlin Howe handle a large deal for the outsourcing of revenue cycle management and IT functions by a non-profit healthcare system based in Minnesota. Long-standing outsourcing expert David Guedry
and Raja Chatterjee also play pivotal roles in the practice. In Los Angeles, ITO and BPO specialist Matthew King handles deals involving middle and back-office financial services processes, facility management, and much more.
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