Christina focuses her practice on health care regulatory and transactional matters. She also advises clients on cyber-security risks and assists in addressing security incidents, ransomware attacks and post-breach response issues.
Christina has significant experience in the negotiation of a broad range of health care agreements, including IT and software purchases for all types of health care entities. She also frequently advises hospitals, physicians, health care joint ventures, ancillary providers and their boards on health care matters such as fraud and abuse compliance, mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures, alliances, formation, financing, criminal investigations, audit responses, business contracts, Medicare, Medicaid and third-party reimbursement matters, shared savings and other payment models, software licensing, HIPAA/HITECH and state data privacy compliance, productivity compensation methodologies and clinically integrated networks.
She counsels clients in the pharmaceutical industry with regard to the manufacture, licensing and distribution of generic drugs. In her international practice, Christina supports U.S. subsidiaries of German parent companies in all aspects, including transactional, real estate, and employment matters.
A native of Germany, Christina practices fluently in English and German.
Christina contributes articles about her areas of practice and has been circulated internationally by legal industry publishers.
*Matter handled prior to joining Benesch.
Representative Experience
- Served as outside counsel in connection with the completion of an agreement for the sale of Summa Health to HatCo. This represents one of the most significant healthcare system transactions in Ohio in recent years and one of the first in which a major health system has been sold to an affiliate of a private equity fund.
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Represented Niedax Group, a leading worldwide cable management systems supplier in facilitating a joint venture with ABB, a global technology leader in electrification and automation. The collaboration is expected to close in Q4 of this year.
- Represented Minnesota-based Lifesprk as co-counsel during a strategic investment from Ucare, Minnesota’s largest Medicare Advantage provider. The investment is part of a broader $20 million series B round, co-led by UCare and a Virgo-managed fund.
- Represent telehealth physician practice, as healthcare regulatory and transactional counsel, in all legal matters with a focus in New York and New Jersey, such as in connection with formation of a management services organization and corresponding medical group, ongoing regulatory guidance in connection with telehealth matters and remote patient monitoring arrangements, drafting services agreements, employment agreements and corporate formation documentation.
- Assisted pediatric physician group in reimbursement claim against EMR provider.*
- Represented ambulatory surgery center against former management company.*
- Assisted hospital system in implementation of IT infrastructure for pediatric joint venture arrangement with academic medical center.*
- Represented sleep services provider in OIG investigation of alleged improper billing practices, violation of IDTF regulations, and physician compensation issues.*
- Represented distributor of pharmaceutical generics in negotiation of three-party supply agreement with ANDA holder and German drug manufacturer.*
- Negotiated EMR license agreement and related implementation agreements for total value of $125m.*