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November 6, 2016

Brian M. Heaton, Partner and Chair within the firm’s Business, Acquisitions, and Securities Practice Group and long-time member of the firm’s Health Care Practice Group, has been selected to serve as Chair of the Health Law Section of the Indiana Bar Association. 

“The Health Law Section promotes the interests of the Section’s members and of the Association in the area of health law, studies and makes appropriate recommendations concerning health law matters, and monitors the developments of this area of practice. Some of the areas on which the section concentrates are: professional liability; managed care; fraud and abuse; social security; long-term care; and ethical issues.” For more information, please click here.

Mr. Heaton’s practice is primarily focused on providing general corporate and business law advice and assisting start-up and established business and health care provider organizations, including hospitals, physicians, physician groups, ambulatory surgery centers, long-term care facilities and hospital-physician partnerships, with everyday operations and extraordinary transactions.

Mr. Heaton has advised clients as to general corporate governance issues, transfers of ownership, buy-sell agreements, choice of entity decisions, fiduciary duties among owners and management, antitrust and competitive analysis (including assistance with Hart-Scott-Rodino (HSR) pre-notification filings), and other matters.  His practice has also included representing both sellers and purchasers in complex transactions involving affiliations, stock and asset sales, mergers, dissolutions, joint ventures, licensing arrangements, and other restructurings.  Mr. Heaton's experience also includes structuring transactions to comply with state and federal licensing and certification requirements, fraud and abuse concerns, the Anti-Kickback and Stark laws and other regulations unique to the health care industry.

Mr. Heaton is active in numerous professional organizations, including serving as a member of the American Health Lawyers Association (AHLA) and as Chair of the Health Law Section of the Indiana State Bar Association (ISBA).

Mr. Heaton is a graduate of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and received his law degree and Masters of Business Administration from the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law and Kelley School of Business.

About Krieg DeVault
Krieg DeVault LLP is a diversified law firm representing a wide variety of local, regional and national clients.  It is a business-focused law firm with offices Indiana, Illinois, Georgia, Minnesota, and Florida.  The firm’s attorneys have significant experience in key areas that address the needs of a diversified client base.  
 

November 6, 2016

Brian M. Heaton, Partner and Chair within the firm’s Business, Acquisitions, and Securities Practice Group and long-time member of the firm’s Health Care Practice Group, has been selected to serve as Chair of the Health Law Section of the Indiana Bar Association. 

“The Health Law Section promotes the interests of the Section’s members and of the Association in the area of health law, studies and makes appropriate recommendations concerning health law matters, and monitors the developments of this area of practice. Some of the areas on which the section concentrates are: professional liability; managed care; fraud and abuse; social security; long-term care; and ethical issues.” For more information, please click here.

Mr. Heaton’s practice is primarily focused on providing general corporate and business law advice and assisting start-up and established business and health care provider organizations, including hospitals, physicians, physician groups, ambulatory surgery centers, long-term care facilities and hospital-physician partnerships, with everyday operations and extraordinary transactions.

Mr. Heaton has advised clients as to general corporate governance issues, transfers of ownership, buy-sell agreements, choice of entity decisions, fiduciary duties among owners and management, antitrust and competitive analysis (including assistance with Hart-Scott-Rodino (HSR) pre-notification filings), and other matters.  His practice has also included representing both sellers and purchasers in complex transactions involving affiliations, stock and asset sales, mergers, dissolutions, joint ventures, licensing arrangements, and other restructurings.  Mr. Heaton's experience also includes structuring transactions to comply with state and federal licensing and certification requirements, fraud and abuse concerns, the Anti-Kickback and Stark laws and other regulations unique to the health care industry.

Mr. Heaton is active in numerous professional organizations, including serving as a member of the American Health Lawyers Association (AHLA) and as Chair of the Health Law Section of the Indiana State Bar Association (ISBA).

Mr. Heaton is a graduate of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and received his law degree and Masters of Business Administration from the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law and Kelley School of Business.

About Krieg DeVault
Krieg DeVault LLP is a diversified law firm representing a wide variety of local, regional and national clients.  It is a business-focused law firm with offices Indiana, Illinois, Georgia, Minnesota, and Florida.  The firm’s attorneys have significant experience in key areas that address the needs of a diversified client base.  
 

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