Healthcare Partner Christopher Anderson Joins Arnold & Porter’s Corporate & Finance Practice in Chicago
11/01/2021
Healthcare Partner Christopher Anderson Joins Arnold & Porter’s Corporate & Finance Practice in Chicago
Arnold & Porter announced today that Christopher Anderson has joined the firm’s Corporate & Finance practice as a partner, resident in Chicago.
Derek Stoldt, co-chair of the firm’s Corporate & Finance practice, said: “Chris is a highly regarded lawyer with unique experience in complex healthcare transactions. His expertise in navigating matters involving healthcare providers, digital health, telemedicine, artificial intelligence, and healthcare software products will be greatly beneficial to our clients. More specifically, the addition of Chris and his broad experience to our renowned Healthcare Provider Transactions practice will be immediately accretive and further enhance our ability to service clients across multiple specialties in the provider space.”
Mr. Anderson is a healthcare transactional and regulatory lawyer who represents 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 includes M&A, divestitures, joint ventures and other affiliations, corporate reorganizations, and financings while his regulatory practice includes advising clients on various fraud and abuse and self-referral matters, HIPAA and other data security compliance issues, as well as state licensure, corporate practice of medicine and dentistry, and fee split problems.
In joining the firm, Mr. Anderson commented: “I am thrilled to be joining Arnold & Porter, a firm that provides cross disciplinary expertise in the transactional, regulatory, and litigation areas. As the healthcare and med tech industries are constantly evolving, I look forward to working with the exceptional Corporate & Finance team as well as my regulatory colleagues to provide excellent strategic and transactional service to clients on cutting-edge transactions in these industries.”
Mr. Anderson earned his JD from DePaul University College of Law and received his BA from the University of Notre Dame.
His arrival follows the recent Chicago additions of partners Andre Geverola, former Director of Criminal Litigation in the Department of Justice (DOJ) Antitrust Division, who joined the firm’s Antitrust/Competition practice group, and Valarie Hays, a former federal prosecutor who joined the firm’s White Collar Defense & Investigations practice. The firm also recently added four patent litigators to the Chicago office, bolstering the firm’s patent litigation practice. These arrivals demonstrate the firm’s commitment to growing its Chicago presence and expanding in a significant market.
The additional arrivals of partners Christopher Willott and Alex Gendzier, who both joined the firm in New York, further strengthen the firm’s broader Corporate & Finance practice.
Healthcare Partner Christopher Anderson Joins Arnold & Porter’s Corporate & Finance Practice in Chicago
Derek Stoldt, co-chair of the firm’s Corporate & Finance practice, said: “Chris is a highly regarded lawyer with unique experience in complex healthcare transactions. His expertise in navigating matters involving healthcare providers, digital health, telemedicine, artificial intelligence, and healthcare software products will be greatly beneficial to our clients. More specifically, the addition of Chris and his broad experience to our renowned Healthcare Provider Transactions practice will be immediately accretive and further enhance our ability to service clients across multiple specialties in the provider space.”
Mr. Anderson is a healthcare transactional and regulatory lawyer who represents 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 includes M&A, divestitures, joint ventures and other affiliations, corporate reorganizations, and financings while his regulatory practice includes advising clients on various fraud and abuse and self-referral matters, HIPAA and other data security compliance issues, as well as state licensure, corporate practice of medicine and dentistry, and fee split problems.
In joining the firm, Mr. Anderson commented: “I am thrilled to be joining Arnold & Porter, a firm that provides cross disciplinary expertise in the transactional, regulatory, and litigation areas. As the healthcare and med tech industries are constantly evolving, I look forward to working with the exceptional Corporate & Finance team as well as my regulatory colleagues to provide excellent strategic and transactional service to clients on cutting-edge transactions in these industries.”
Mr. Anderson earned his JD from DePaul University College of Law and received his BA from the University of Notre Dame.
His arrival follows the recent Chicago additions of partners Andre Geverola, former Director of Criminal Litigation in the Department of Justice (DOJ) Antitrust Division, who joined the firm’s Antitrust/Competition practice group, and Valarie Hays, a former federal prosecutor who joined the firm’s White Collar Defense & Investigations practice. The firm also recently added four patent litigators to the Chicago office, bolstering the firm’s patent litigation practice. These arrivals demonstrate the firm’s commitment to growing its Chicago presence and expanding in a significant market.
The additional arrivals of partners Christopher Willott and Alex Gendzier, who both joined the firm in New York, further strengthen the firm’s broader Corporate & Finance practice.
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