Karl Schmitz Email & Phone Number

Karl Schmitz is a partner in the Business Department of Hooper, Lundy & Bookman, P.C. Mr. Schmitz has advised a wide variety of health care providers on business, general corporate and regulatory matters, including hospitals, individual physicians, physician groups, independent physician associations, health care consultants, management organizations and investors in health care businesses. A significant portion of his practice has focused on the merger and acquisition of health care businesses, including the purchase, sale and leasing of health care facilities, such as hospitals, skilled nursing facilities, ambulatory surgery centers and pharmacies. Mr. Schmitz also has extensive experience advising clients on consolidation and alignment strategies, including the formation of medical foundations and other organizational affiliations. He has represented for-profit and non-profit corporations, as well as county and local health care districts.Mr. Schmitz is also experienced in the formation of business entities, raising capital through private offerings and syndications, and other general corporate matters. He regularly advises clients on contractual matters, such as the development of professional service agreements, coverage agreements, medical directorships and consulting agreements. As such, his practice involves counseling clients on both federal and state regulatory matters such as anti-kickback and physician self-referral laws and state prohibitions against the corporate practice of medicine.

Listed skills include Litigation, Legal Research, Class Actions, Civil Litigation, and 16 others.

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  Attorney (Partner)

  Hooper, Lundy & Bookman, P.C.

  Oct 2007 - Present

  More than 10 years of experience advising clients in their sophisticated healthcare transactions, including, mergers and acquisitions, affiliations as well as advising hospitals, physician practice groups and management companies on wide-range of business transactions.Specific examples of healthcare transactional experience includes:• Lead attorney in the formation and representation of a large physician-owned specialty hospital in Orange County, California.• Lead attorney in the sale of a large multi-specialty cancer focused physician group to an affiliated hospital and 1206(l) medical foundation.• Lead attorney for the John C. Lincoln health system in its system-wide affiliation with Scottsdale (Arizona) Health System.• Lead attorney for in the sale of a large multi-specialty physician group in Los Angeles, California.• Lead attorney for the Saltzer Medical Group in its divestiture from the St. Luke’s Health System (Idaho).