Frank is widely recognized as a powerhouse attorney and business advisor in the complex and ever-evolving healthcare legal landscape, both nationally and in Columbus, Ohio—one of the most dynamic markets for healthcare, life sciences, and medical innovation. For more than three decades, Frank has played a key role in some of the most significant and transformative healthcare transactions, guiding clients through the complexities to accomplish their goals.
Chair of the Benesch Healthcare+ Practice Group and a member of the firm’s Corporate Practice Group, Frank counsels individuals and entities operating at the intersection of healthcare business, law, and regulatory policy, supporting healthcare providers and other healthcare-adjacent entities and investors.
He is exceptionally skilled in helping clients navigate mergers, acquisitions, sales, expansions, reorganizations, strategic alliances, private equity and venture capital investment, equity and debt financings, and recapitalizations.
Frank counsels clients on a wide range of healthcare regulatory and compliance matters, including federal and state fraud, waste, and abuse laws and regulations, as well as HIPAA and data security and privacy matters. He guides clients in responding to government audits, conducts internal investigations, handles self-disclosures, designs and advises on the implementation of compliance programs, and represents clients in enforcement actions. Clients also benefit from Frank’s astute counsel regarding business structuring and organization, corporate governance, reimbursement matters and compensation structures, complex compliance functions, and business alignment and affiliation strategies.
In addition to his active law practice, Frank serves as partner-in-charge of Benesch’s Columbus, Ohio office.
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.
- Represented a credit investment firm as health care regulatory counsel related to the purchase of three skilled nursing facilities in Florida.
- Represented client as health care regulatory counsel related to the purchase of three skilled nursing facilities in Florida. Conducted all healthcare and regulatory due diligence of the seller and worked with seller's counsel to resolve multiple licensure issues in advance of execution of the definitive agreements. In addition to providing counsel on the key definitive agreements including the purchase and sale agreement, operating lease agreement, cost sharing agreement and facility management agreement, we reviewed and provide counsel on key provisions of a joint venture agreement our client entered into with a third party. The joint venture entity became the ultimate buyer of the facilities. We also provide advice and counsel on regulatory aspects and considerations of loan documents in connections with the financing to provide the capital to complete the transaction.
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Represented a fertility practice and its associated ambulatory surgical center in their sale to a fertility clinic.
- Represented private equity sponsor in its simultaneous acquisitions of an oncology practice service provider and a group purchasing organization.
- Represented client company in connection with a recapitalization involving the sale of a majority equity interest in the company from a management company to a local health system. The transaction also involved the assignment and assumption of the management agreement for operation of the company surgery center business. We reviewed and negotiated all definitive agreements including the membership interest purchase agreement, amended and restated operating agreement, transition services agreement, joint venture services agreement, assignment and assumption agreement and all applicable written actions and resolutions.
- Represented the buyer in its acquisitions of multiple behavioral health practices throughout the country.
- Represented the buyer in its acquisition of a provider of mental-health services with a focus on telehealth.
- Represented the buyer in its acquisition of a provider of mental-health services in the State of Washington.
- Represented revenue cycle management company in the home medical equipment space in the sale of substantially all its assets to a competitor, drafted and negotiated all definitive agreements, counseled client, and processed the closing of the transaction.
