Mr Jay Gerzog > Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP > New York, United States > Lawyer Profile
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Mr Jay Gerzog
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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 > Healthcare > Service providers
Predominantly based in California, Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP‘s practice is noted for its expansive transactional expertise. Practice head Eric Klein acts for a diverse client roster of hospitals and physician organizations in joint ventures and M&A, while Lynsey Mitchel primarily represents value-based care enterprises and accountable care organizations in HMO regulatory mandates. Working out of the Washington DC office, Michael Paddock‘s areas of expertise include healthcare fraud and abuse cases arising under the Stark Law and the FCA, and Erica Kraus, who is noted for her extensive knowledge of health policy, assists clients with government investigations and regulatory compliance. In New York, corporate transactional and tax expert Jay Gerzog‘s client base consists of provider and payor institutions. Carolyn Metnick joined the Chicago team from McDermott Will & Emery LLP in June 2023, contributing her deep knowledge of privacy and digital health.
United States > Tax > Not-for-profit (Fortune 1000 private foundations, national trade associations, and charities)
Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP advises tax-exempt nonprofit groups across the full lifecycle of their domestic and overseas activities. The department boasts particular strength in the healthcare industry, with further expertise in the sports, sustainability, and educational sectors. David Ulich co-heads the team from Los Angeles alongside Tamar Rosenberg, who works from New York. Ulich maintains close client relations with a number of prominent nonprofits and additionally acts as president of the Foundation for Global Sports Development, while Rosenberg is highly active on behalf of healthcare clients as well as catering to religious, humanitarian, and education groups, amongst others. Also in New York are Jay Gerzog, ‘one of the best tax-exempt organizations lawyers in the country’ who advises on a range of complex corporate transactions in the nonprofit space, and Amanda Zablocki, who chiefly handles issues in the healthcare sector.
Lawyer Rankings
- Not-for-profit (Fortune 1000 private foundations, national trade associations, and charities) United States > Tax
- Service providers United States > Healthcare
Top Tier Firm Rankings
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 (Fortune 1000 private foundations, national trade associations, and charities)
- Energy > Renewable/alternative power
- Healthcare > Service providers
- 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 > Cartel
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Environment > Environment: litigation
- Labor and employment > Labor and employment disputes (including collective actions)
- 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
- Insurance > Advice to insurers
- Real estate > Real estate finance