Strategic hire reflects group’s full-service capabilities and growing client demand
April 14, 2022 – Ulmer & Berne LLP is pleased to announce the addition of Michael L. Gurman as a Partner in the firm’s Health Care Practice Group. Gurman joins Ulmer’s New York office where he will continue his practice focusing on the diverse legal needs of clients in the health care industry.
“Our clients are experiencing remarkable growth and we continue to add top-notch talent that can provide the innovative legal solutions they need to succeed,” said Daniel A. Gottesman, Co-Group Leader of Ulmer’s Health Care Practice Group. “Health care providers and investors rely on Michael for his sound advice and counsel on a wide range of transactional, operational, and regulatory matters. We are thrilled to add his strategic insight and industry knowledge to our full-service team.”
Gurman is an accomplished health care and corporate attorney who represents a broad spectrum of clients, including skilled nursing and assisted living facilities, imaging centers, home health care agencies, management services organizations, and physician practices. He has extensive experience with mergers and acquisitions, equity investments, and other strategic business transactions, and works to ensure they are structured in accordance with federal and state physician self-referral laws, anti-kickback laws, and other applicable regulations.
He regularly provides outside counsel to a variety of entities, including nursing home operators and large physician practices, and handles their formation, operations, general business, and commercial matters. He also assists with the negotiation and drafting of complex agreements, from employment and independent contractor agreements to administrative and vendor services contracts, and provides oversight with corporate compliance and risk management.
Licensed to practice in New York and New Jersey, Gurman is recognized for his legal talent across the New York metropolitan area. He has been named to the Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch list for Health Care Law, and to the New York Super Lawyers list of Rising Stars every year since 2014. He earned his undergraduate degree with honors from the University of Massachusetts and his J.D. with honors from the Boston University School of Law.
Ulmer’s Health Care Practice Group is known for its substantial body of transactional work across the country and helps clients achieve their overarching business objectives while navigating important regulatory requirements under state and federal law. The group’s deep understanding of compliance with physician self-referral, fraud and abuse, and false claims laws, combined with its ability to structure and negotiate all aspects of potential business transactions, such as mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, debt and equity financing transactions, investment vehicles, and other complex agreements, provides health care clients one destination for their widespread legal needs.