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Jay Harris focuses on healthcare industry transactions as well as general corporate matters. As a partner in our Healthcare practice, Jay represents healthcare providers, investors and other organizations in a variety of transactions.
Jay represents clients in the transactions surrounding the formation of new entities and structures for delivery of healthcare services. He is experienced in acquisition and divesture transactions for many types of healthcare providers, including hospitals and health systems; home health and hospice agencies; long-term care facilities; ambulatory surgical centers; physician practices; dialysis and diagnostic imaging providers; dental services companies; and pharmacies.
Jay also represents private equity funds and other healthcare industry investors in numerous healthcare-related transactions, including for-profit and nonprofit entities, with a focus on joint ventures, joint operating companies and other forms of affiliations.
In addition, Jay counsels clients in general corporate matters, including public and private equity and debt offerings, venture capital financings and leveraged buyout transactions. His experience also includes mergers and acquisitions of industrial service, manufacturing and distribution companies.
Jay has been selected as a 2017 Lawyer of the Year — Healthcare by The Best Lawyers in America, and listed as a Leading Individual by Legal 500, 2016. He has also been recognized by Nightingale's Healthcare News as one of its Outstanding Healthcare Transaction Lawyers.
J.D., Vanderbilt University School of Law
M.B.A., Vanderbilt University
B.A., Vanderbilt University, magna cum laude
Georgia
American Bar Association
Atlanta Bar Association
Best Lawyers In America
State Bar of Georgia
June 8, 2023
King & Spalding Earns Top-Tier Rankings in Legal 500 United States 2023 Guide
July 22, 2022
Jay Harris joins the Vanderbilt Alumni Association board
Advised a nonprofit healthcare system on its affiliation agreement with another non-profit healthcare system.
Represented a single specialty physician practice on its sale to a publicly held physician services company.
Advised a major academic medical center in its master affiliation agreement and academic affiliation agreement with a non-profit healthcare system.
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June 8, 2023
King & Spalding Earns Top-Tier Rankings in Legal 500 United States 2023 Guide
July 22, 2022
Jay Harris joins the Vanderbilt Alumni Association board
Advised a nonprofit healthcare system on its affiliation agreement with another non-profit healthcare system.
Represented a single specialty physician practice on its sale to a publicly held physician services company.
Advised a major academic medical center in its master affiliation agreement and academic affiliation agreement with a non-profit healthcare system.
See more
June 8, 2023
King & Spalding Earns Top-Tier Rankings in Legal 500 United States 2023 Guide
July 22, 2022
Jay Harris joins the Vanderbilt Alumni Association board
J.D., Vanderbilt University School of Law
M.B.A., Vanderbilt University
B.A., Vanderbilt University, magna cum laude
Georgia
American Bar Association
Atlanta Bar Association
Best Lawyers In America
State Bar of Georgia