David Garcia is a trusted business lawyer with substantial experience advising clients in strategic transactions. He helps business owners, practice managers, private equity-backed consolidators and investors close deals across many industries, but with a specific focus on transactions involving health care providers and service companies.
David guides clients through all the legal aspects of a deal, including structuring mergers and acquisitions (M&A) from the LOI stage through closing and beyond, joint ventures, entity formation and restructuring, employment agreements, and general contract negotiation. Clients rely on his experience to navigate transactions on a nationwide basis involving:
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- Veterinary clinics
- Clinical research trial companies
- Dental and orthodontic providers
- Behavioral health centers
- Independently owned physician practices and health care service companies
Experience
- Advised multiple health care providers in connection with strategic transactions involving their entry into a national health care alliance.
- Counseled a growing private equity-backed veterinary services organization in the expansion of its operational footprint through a series of practice acquisitions across multiple states.
- Served as regulatory counsel on the merger of two large veterinary management companies.
- Structured a joint venture with a strategic buyer for the owners of a cardiology practice.
- Closed stock sale transaction to a private equity-backed company for the owners of an ABA therapy provider.
- Helped multiple clients form and structure friendly physician business models involving Management Services Organizations (MSO) in multiple health care service industries and Dental Service Organizations (DSO) and use those vehicles for platform and add-on acquisitions.
- Closed sale of all of clinical research site owners’ equity interests to a large national platform.
- Completed sale of substantially all assets of owners of multiple veterinary practices to corporate consolidators.