Mr Jay Gerzog > Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP > New York, United States > Lawyer Profile
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Mr Jay Gerzog
Work Department
Corporate; Healthcare; Tax
Position
Jay Gerzog is a partner in Sheppard Mullin’s Corporate Practice Group and leads the New York Office’s healthcare team. Jay is recognized nationally as a leading healthcare and nonprofit corporate attorney with over three decades of experience. His practice focuses on representing both tax-exempt institutions and for-profit companies primarily in the healthcare sector.
Jay has served as deal counsel in many of the consolidation transactions and strategic alliances that have transformed the New York metropolitan healthcare landscape over the past.
Jay routinely advises clients on a wide range of transactional matters, including complex corporate affiliations and disaffiliations, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, corporate restructuring, operational and contracting matters, and strategic planning.
Jay’s healthcare clients include integrated healthcare delivery systems, hospitals, academic medical centers, ambulatory surgery centers, managed care organizations, private equity and strategic investors, management companies, scientific research organizations, payers, physician groups, and other healthcare providers and tax-exempt organizations.
In the nonprofit and tax-exempt organization area, Jay routinely assists clients with obtaining and maintaining tax-exempt and public charity status and with compliance with state nonprofit laws and federal tax law for tax-exempt organizations. He advises nonprofit clients on the development and implementation of corporate governance, fiduciary duties, conflict of interest, ethics, audit and executive compensation best practices, compliance programs and policies, including on management structures and internal control systems to prevent and detect violations of law. Jay’s experience includes representing nonprofit managed care plans in the sale and dissolution of their operations and the related complex state regulatory approval process. He is uniquely experienced in the conversion of nonprofit entities, such as Blue Cross Blue Shield health plans and various healthcare facilities, to for-profit status.
Jay recently led the representation of the corporate members of Fidelis Care, New York’s largest Medicaid managed care plan, in its $3.75 billion asset sale to Centene Corporation, the nation’s largest Medicaid managed care plan provider. The proceeds of the sale have been used to create one of the largest healthcare grantmaking foundations in the country.
Memberships
American Bar Association, Section on Taxation
American Health Lawyers Association
New York State Bar Association
Education
LL.M., New York University School of Law, Taxation, 1992
J.D., George Washington University Law School, 1985, with honors
B.A., Colgate University, 1982, magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Tax > Not-for-profit (nonprofit and tax exempt organizations)
Operating as part of the firm’s national healthcare group, Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP‘s nonprofit team is described as a ‘truly full-service practice with qualified attorneys who have different specialties’ in which ‘each lawyer is detail oriented, and matters do not fall through the cracks’. David Ulich, who has particularly strong relationships with several very large nonprofits including the American Film Institute and Catholic Health Services of Long Island leads the team together with Tamar Rosenberg, whose practice focuses on the full life cycle of a tax-exempt, nonprofit organization. The pair are based in Los Angeles and New York respectively. Ulich. Elsewhere in the team, Jay Gerzog heads up the firm’s nationwide healthcare practice, with a specialty in the representation of tax-exempt and other nonprofit healthcare providers and payor institutions. Practitioners also regularly work in the entertainment, real estate, retail and education industries. Amanda Zablocki is the group’s key figure for advising clients in the healthcare sector.
Lawyer Rankings
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Firm Rankings
- Government > Government contracts
- Healthcare > Health insurers
- Real estate > Land use/zoning
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: middle-market (sub-$500m)
- Media, technology and telecoms > Media and entertainment: transactional
- Tax > Not-for-profit (nonprofit and tax exempt organizations)
- Energy > Renewable/alternative power
- Healthcare > Service providers
- Antitrust > Cartel
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Real estate > Real estate
- Media, technology and telecoms > Telecoms and broadcast: regulatory
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Environment > Environment: litigation
- Media, technology and telecoms > Media and entertainment: litigation
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
- Media, technology and telecoms > Telecoms and broadcast: transactions
- Real estate > Construction (including construction litigation)
- Healthcare > Life sciences
- Tax > International tax
- Labor and employment > Labor and employment disputes (including collective actions)