John Gardner Armsby (Gardner)

• Represented nonprofit and for-profit health system clients in acquisitions and divestitures of dozens of acute-care and specialty hospitals, including a $1 billion acquisition of a three-hospital nonprofit system, a $950 million acquisition of three hospitals from a publicly traded system, and a $750 million sale of three acute-care hospitals and an LTACH by a publicly traded system.
• Represented multiple health systems in joint venture transactions with private equity sponsors and other investor-owned entities involving ambulatory surgery centers, rehabilitation hospitals, behavioral health facilities, urgent care centers, and other specialty facilities.
• Represented multi-specialty physician group in $2 billion sale to physician practice management subsidiary of publicly traded company.
• Represented committee of physician and management investors in private equity-backed physician practice management company in $900+ million recapitalization transaction.
• Represented private equity sponsors and portfolio companies in platform and roll-up acquisitions of physician practices and related ancillary healthcare businesses.
• Represented physician practices of various specialties (including anesthesiology, emergency medicine, oncology, orthopedics, primary care, radiology, and multi-specialty groups) in sales to private equity sponsors, health systems, and other buyers.
• Represented foreign investor in platform acquisition of nurse staffing business and subsequent roll-up transactions.
• Represented academic medical center system in overhaul of its corporate governance structure.
• Represented hospital owned by state-government entity in reorganization transaction involving transfer of hospital operations and lease of assets to newly formed nonprofit entity.
• Represented multiple buyers and sellers in transactions involving skilled nursing facilities, personal care homes, and other senior living facilities.
• Represented closely held hospice business in carve-out sale of multiple hospice agencies to private equity-backed national hospice chain.

Gardner Armsby is a partner in King & Spalding’s Healthcare practice and advises healthcare industry clients on corporate transactions and regulatory compliance matters. He represents for-profit and non-profit healthcare companies, as well as lenders, private equity firms, and other healthcare investors. With a unique combination of corporate and regulatory expertise, Gardner assists clients in structuring, negotiating, and executing transactions in the highly regulated healthcare industry, including mergers and acquisitions, reorganizations, joint ventures, financings, management arrangements, affiliations, and other complex transactions.

Gardner also counsels clients on healthcare regulatory and compliance matters, including corporate practice of medicine restrictions, fraud and abuse laws, HIPAA, licensing and certificate of need requirements, and 501(c)(3) tax-exemption issues.

Gardner has worked with a broad spectrum of healthcare businesses, including health systems, hospitals, surgery centers, nursing homes, physician practices, home health and hospice agencies, laboratories, pharmacies, medical supply companies, and electronic health records companies, among others.

Gardner graduated first in his class from Georgia State University College of Law. He received his undergraduate degree in Economics from the University of Georgia. Prior to attending law school, Gardner worked as CFO and Corporate Compliance Officer for a 501(c)(3) non-profit provider of vocational training services for adults with disabilities.