Caroline Patterson is a prominent healthcare and business attorney with a reputation for sound judgment, responsiveness, and a creative approach to achieving her client’s legal and business objectives. Caroline concentrates her practice on a wide variety of transactional, corporate, and regulatory matters, including mergers, acquisitions, sales, strategic partnerships, joint ventures, private equity investments, HIPAA compliance, federal and state laws fraud and abuse laws, ownership and compensation arrangements, and employment negotiations. Caroline has extensive experience advising investigators and clinical institutions on clinical trial agreements and clinical research law.
Caroline’s clients include physicians, hospitals, health systems, management service organizations, life science and other healthcare consulting companies, dental practices, physical therapists, ambulatory care facilities, and individual healthcare professionals. Caroline is a frequent lecturer and contributor to the American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO) on advanced legal topics related to healthcare, including mergers, acquisitions, private equity, fraud and abuse, clinical research, and employment law matters.