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Patrick M. Connolly

Mr. Connolly is a business lawyer who represents a wide range of business entities and individual entrepreneurs in matters pertaining to business planning,  business formation and governance, transactions, dispute resolution and regulatory compliance.

Mr. Connolly has particular expertise in the health care industry, having served as legal Counsel to a national hospital chain, where he functioned as a general counsel to numerous acute care and behavioral hospitals, as well as to a physician practice management company subsidiary.

Mr. Connolly has extensive health care regulatory experience involving fraud and abuse, Stark, certificate of need, licensing and medical staff issues, as well as in the design and implementation of corporate compliance programs.

Mr. Connolly also handles mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, equity and debt management and a wide range of other business transactions in both healthcare and in other industries.


Education

• Harvard Law School
• University of Scranton (M.H.A., 1992)
• College of the Holy Cross (A.B.,magna cum laude, 1972)



Bar Admissions

• Georgia
• District of Columbia
• Massachusetts
• Pennsylvania


Representative Transactions

• Lead Counsel - acquisition of forty hospitals  by national hospital chain.
• Lead Counsel - corporate integrity agreement negotiation between group of nine hospitals and Texas Attorney General's office.
• Lead Counsel - physician practice group acquisitions in Georgia, Florida, Texas and California
• Representation of both borrowers and lenders in a variety of multi-million dollar commercial loan transactions
• Representation of investor groups in private placements for hotel developments and other projects throughout the Southeast


Publications

Guidelines for Physicians on Security and Privacy, Trust the Leaders, Spring 2007

Should Physician Groups Merge?, Atlanta Hospital News, June, 2007

Tear Down the Wall, Health Leaders Magazine, September, 2007

Patient Privacy in the Information Age - Atlanta Hospital News, December 2006

Patient Privacy in the Information Age - Georgia Scroll, Winter 2007



Professional and Community Involvement

•  State Bar of Georgia
•  American Health Lawyers Association
•  Georgia Society of Healthcare Attorneys
•  Ireland Chamber of Commerce in the United States
•  St. Joseph's Hospital Grand Rounds for Distinguished Community Leaders
•  Cherokee Town & Country Club Membership Committee

 


Contact Information

404-239-1150 ext 146
pconnolly@gorbypeters.com

Two Ravinia Drive
Suite 1500
Atlanta, GA 30346-2104



Patrick M. Connolly
Profile:

Patrick
M. Connolly is a business and health care lawyer who represents a wide range of business entities and individual entrepreneurs in matters pertaining to business planning,  business formation and governance, transactions, dispute resolution and regulatory compliance.