Thomas H. Hawk III (Tom)

A member of the healthcare and private equity teams, Tom Hawk specializes in healthcare mergers and acquisitions, other transactions, and regulatory compliance matters. As a partner in our Healthcare practice, Tom represents private equity firms, lenders, other financial institutions, and health industry clients in a variety of transactions and related matters.

Tom counsels investors and health industry companies on transactions involving a broad array of healthcare and life science businesses, including mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures and general contracting issues.

He also advises health systems, hospitals, pharmaceutical companies, pharmacy benefit managers, physicians and physician organizations, and managed care organizations, on an array of federal and state regulatory matters. These include navigating changes caused by healthcare reform; fraud and abuse compliance; False Claims Act issues; Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act and state health information privacy laws; Stark Law compliance; accountable care organization formation; managed care contracting; and various certificate of need issues.  Tom is ranked by CHAMBERS USA, the preeminent evaluator of lawyers and law firm practices.