Hannah McSween Cole

Ms. Cole counsels health care organizations – including hospitals, ambulatory surgery centers, physician groups, and specialty practices – on a wide range of transactional, regulatory, and day-to-day operational issues, including guiding organizations through transitions to management services organizations and value-based arrangements. Her in-house experience allows her to anticipate business risks, streamline decision-making, and align legal strategies with organizational goals, and she acts as a trusted advisor to boards, executive leadership, and senior management on a wide range of topics grounded in the regulatory, business, and operational realities faced by her clients.

• Health Care Industry

• Represented a transformative health IT company from formation through sale to a Fortune 50 company.

• Represented a Georgia non-profit hospital in the sale of substantially all of its assets to a national for-profit health care organization.

• Successfully represented a leading nationwide operator of wellness centers for self-funded organizations in the sale of the business to the country's largest direct health care provider.

• Represented a physician practice in Tennessee in a corporate restructuring, transition to a management services organization structure, and strategic joint venture transaction.

• Secured the first Certificate of Public Advantage (COPA) ever issued in the state of Tennessee and the first Cooperative Agreement ever issued in the Commonwealth of Virginia for a billion-dollar non-profit health system.

• Represented a behavioral health provider operating 23 psychiatric hospitals and outpatient programs along the Gulf Coast, as seller's counsel, in its $310 million sale to a buyer with financing provided by a private equity firm.

• Represented Strategic Behavioral Health in its $170 million sale of eight psychiatric hospitals to a Tennessee-based behavioral health and addiction treatment center.

• Represented a non-profit hospital in a strategic joint venture for an imaging center.

• Other Industries

• Represented Franklin American Mortgage in the sale of substantially all of its assets to a financial group.

• Successfully represented a leading provider of benchmarking and comparative analysis services to hotels in a sale to a publicly traded company that was the largest hotel industry transaction in 2019.

• Represented a leading management consulting firm in its membership interest sale to a leading business advisory firm.

• Advised a closely held trucking company in the structuring and sale of the business.

• Represented a client in the sale of its nationwide solar asset management company, which was valued at $26 million and provided solar power system operations and maintenance services, to a private equity company.

• Serves as corporate counsel to a variety of businesses, from a large publicly traded manufacturer to closely held restaurants.

• Listed in Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch® in America for Mergers and Acquisitions (2021 – 2024)
• Selected to Mid-South Rising Stars in Business/Corporate (2023)
• Recipient – Baker Donelson's Firm-Wide Pro Bono Award (2021)
• Assisted with the launch of the Nashville Homeless Court
• Served as the coordinator for the H.E.L.P. Clinic at Room in the Inn