Gerald Griffith Email & Phone Number

I am a health care transactional and tax-exempt organizations partner at Jones Day. I represent clients in health care transactions and tax controversies, focusing on cutting-edge deal structures and high-stakes IRS audits for over 30 years. My transactional practice focuses on complex transactions, with an emphasis on joint operating agreements (JOAs), other joint ventures (both domestic and international) and acquisitions. I also have defended leading hospitals, health systems and managed care organizations in over two dozen IRS audits and voluntary disclosures, including walk-in closing agreements. I also have obtained several distinctive, favorable private letter rulings from the IRS, including the first ruling approving a nonprofit hospital joint operating agreement (PLR 9609012), the first hybrid JOA/merger ruling (PLR 199944046), the first and only ruling on excess benefit transactions with physicians (PLR 201336020), and one of the few rulings issued to a tax-exempt captive insurance company (PLR 9715042);. I also have considerable experience in nonprofit governance, structuring academic medical center relationships with faculty practice plans, and restructuring hospital-physician transactions for compliance with the Stark Law and excess benefit transaction rules. I represent some of the premier health care systems in the country, including Henry Ford Health System, Trinity Health and Dignity Health.I am currently the president of the Illinois Association of Healthcare Attorneys, and I am a former chair of the Great Lakes Area Tax-Exempt/Government Entities Practitioners Council. I am also a past president of the American Health Lawyers Association (AHLA), and a past chair of AHLA’s Tax & Finance Practice Group. I also previously served as chair of the Health Care Law Section of the State Bar of Michigan (HCLS). I am a fellow of both AHLA and HCLS. I also currently serve as a member of the advisory board for BNA’s Health Law Reporter.

Listed skills include Health Law, Corporate Law, Corporate Governance, Mergers And Acquisitions, and 2 others.