Overview
Matt Churchill’s transactional practice focuses on healthcare investment, joint venture and merger and acquisition transactions. He represents health systems, service providers and physicians in a variety of sophisticated matters.
Matt has advised on dozens of healthcare joint ventures, including for dialysis, vascular access, cardiac cath lab, imaging and ambulatory surgery centers, and is experienced in addressing corporate practice of medicine issues through management services organizations and physician practice management structures. He has worked on cutting-edge, value-based care transactions, including kidney care entities and ESRD seamless care organizations that participate in CMS innovation programs and value-based physician incentive programs for commercial payors. Through his joint venture practice, Matt has developed significant experience in the law and documentation related to limited liability companies.
Matt also represents health systems, service providers and physicians in merger and acquisition transactions, including health system member substitution and affiliation transactions, and sales and acquisitions of healthcare businesses involving both strategic and private equity acquirors. He has a strong background in general corporate and debt financing matters and can provide comprehensive corporate counseling to his healthcare clients.
Experience
- Represents a health system in member substitution affiliation transactions involving other health systems in North Carolina.
- Represents dialysis, vascular access and cardiac cath lab service providers in structuring dozens of joint ventures with physician and hospital co-venturers, including transactions structured as ambulatory surgery centers, clinics, physician practices and joint venture management services organizations.
- Represents an imaging center service provider in joint ventures with health systems structured as both independent diagnostic testing facilities and hospital outpatient departments.
- Represents a service provider in the formation of value-based kidney care entities participating in CMS innovation programs and in the structuring of physician incentive programs for nephrologists participating in value-based commercial payor programs.
- Represents a health system in developing and implementing a value-based care management services organization.
- Represents a health system in structuring and documenting a collaboration with a national insurance company to provide joint, third-party administrator and healthcare service to self-funded employers.
- Represents a clinically integrated behavioral health network in general corporate and healthcare-related matters.
- Represented the seller in a $2.1 billion sale of a hospitalist company.
- Represented a health system in the sale of a third-party administrator business.
- Represented a health system in the sale to a private equity group of a for-profit home health and wellness business for seniors.
- Represented a health system in an investment and strategic services transaction involving a Georgia health system.
Accolades
Honors & Recognitions
- Chambers USA, healthcare, 2024-25
- The Best Lawyers in America, corporate governance, 2009-18; healthcare, 2022-26; corporate, 2023-26
- Martindale-Hubbell, AV® Preeminent™ Peer Review Rated
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Education
Stanford University, J.D., 1993; Member, Stanford Law Review
Duke University, A.B., magna cum laude, 1988, Phi Beta Kappa
Bar Admissions
- North Carolina
