Christopher Anderson is a health care transactional and regulatory attorney who works with private equity funds, venture capitalists, strategic investors, lenders, institutional and professional healthcare providers, telehealth/health tech companies, and life science companies in connection with planning, structuring, and executing transactions and other strategic business arrangements in the healthcare and life sciences industries.
His transactional experience also includes M&A, divestitures, joint ventures and other affiliations, corporate reorganizations, and financings. He regularly leads large-scale transactions managing a team of subject matter experts as well as acting as a health care regulatory and transactional authority in other firm deals.
His hospital-physician integration experience encompasses transactions for health systems, ASCs (ambulatory surgery centers), large physician groups, and other ancillary providers, as well as the formation of care coordination entities, joint ventures, pay-for-performance and gain sharing programs, co-management agreements, ACOs (accountable care organizations), clinically integrated networks, and other partnership opportunities He has structured innovative arrangements between for-profit entities and nonprofit providers and/or quasi-governmental entities that has led to the preservation of community health care assets and simultaneously safeguarded investor value.
Mr. Anderson’s regulatory practice includes advising clients on various fraud and abuse and self-referral matters, HIPAA and other data security compliance issues, and Medicare program requirements as well as state licensure, certificate of need, corporate practice of medicine, and fee-split problems.
He has written and spoken extensively on the applications of health care law and is an adjunct professor at the University of Illinois-Chicago leading an annual class on health care law and regulation.
Perspectives
Recognition
“Illinois Emerging Lawyer” in health law
“Rising Star” in health care
Credentials
Education
- J.D., DePaul University College of Law
- B.A., University of Notre Dame
Admissions
- Illinois
- U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit