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Dan Abrams is a health care transactional attorney who concentrates his practice on mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, and regulatory matters for health care and corporate clients. As a member of Baker Donelson's Health Law Group, Mr. Abrams focuses on structuring and executing complex business transactions involving investor-owned and not-for-profit health care enterprises, with additional experience across life sciences and general corporate transactions.

Overview


Mr. Abrams advises health care organizations and corporate clients on complex transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, corporate reorganizations, and regulatory compliance. His work spans health care systems, behavioral health companies, physician practices, and corporate entities, with experience ranging from single-asset acquisitions to large-scale system transactions. He focuses on structuring transactions, negotiating definitive agreements, and supervising multidisciplinary teams across real estate, employment, data privacy, intellectual property, and health care regulatory disciplines. Mr. Abrams is known for his ability to coordinate transactions involving numerous stakeholders and competing interests and takes pride in understanding his clients' business objectives and designing creative, yet practical, legal solutions to meet their needs.

Mr. Abrams represents a diverse range of clients across the health care and corporate sectors, including major not-for-profit health systems, investor-owned hospital companies, behavioral health organizations, and physician practices. His transactional experience spans deal structures of varying size and complexity, and he is equally adept at representing buyers and sellers across a wide spectrum of industries and ownership models.

Mr. Abrams brings particular depth to transactions involving complex regulatory environments, including Certificate of Public Advantage (COPA) proceedings. His experience navigating the intersection of health care regulation and transactional law allows him to counsel clients through matters that require coordination among multiple regulatory bodies and governmental authorities, ensuring that deal structures achieve both business and compliance objectives.

In addition to his health care transactional practice, Mr. Abrams has experience advising life sciences companies on a range of corporate and compliance matters. His work in this space includes counseling clients, including academic research institutions, on structuring relationships with industry partners, negotiating and drafting clinical trial and research collaboration agreements, and advising on regulatory and compliance considerations unique to the life sciences industry. Mr. Abrams regularly works with early stage and emerging life sciences companies, supporting their growth through strategic transactions and governance advice as they move from development to commercialization. He leverages his broad transactional experience to provide practical guidance to life sciences clients navigating complex projects at the intersection of business, science, and regulation.

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  • Represented a publicly traded renewable energy company in several acquisitions.

  • Represented a medical education company in its $150 million sale to a private equity fund.

  • Represented a medical education company in expanding its portfolio of operations through a series of acquisitions of complementary service providers.

  • Represented utility companies in transactional matters.

  • Assisted early-stage companies with day-to-day corporate law compliance and shareholder matters.

  • Assisted a pharmaceutical supply chain solutions provider in negotiating customer contracts.

  • Represented the owners of a small, two-physician plastic surgery practice in a sell-side transaction, advising on strategic alternatives and negotiations. After declining a proposed private equity transaction, the physicians completed a sale to an expanding, physician-led plastic surgery platform based in North Carolina.

  • Represented a health care company in the $65 million sale of an inpatient rehabilitation facility to a for-profit hospital company. 

  • Represented a major not-for-profit health system in the $100 million acquisition of a county hospital.

  • Represented a major not-for-profit health system in its acquisition of a community hospital.

  • Represented a major not-for-profit health system in negotiations with a county government and industrial development board to develop a micro hospital.

  • Represented a behavioral health company in a complex corporate reorganization.

  • Represented a corporation in connection with a stock sale to a foreign acquirer.

  • Represented a surgical practice in the sale of its assets to a newly formed medical group.

  • Represented a pediatric practice in the sale of its assets to a regional pediatric group.

  • Represented a hospital system in negotiations of terms, conditions, commitments, and pricing commitments to obtain a Certificate of Public Advantage (COPA).

  • Assisted in the establishment of a new college of medicine affiliated with a major academic medical institution.

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  • Listed in Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch® in America for Health Care Law (2025, 2026). This award is conferred by Best Lawyers. A description of the selection methodology is available here.
  • Member – American Bar Association
  • Member – Nashville Health Care Council
  • Member – Leadership Health Care
  • Participant – Baker Donelson Trusted Advisor Academy, Foundations Track (Pilot)
  • Volunteer – Shelby Bottoms Greenway and Nature Park

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