Practice Areas & Industries: Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

Practice/Industry Group Overview

"[A]lways a contender for high level healthcare advocacy and regulatory work"
- Chambers USA 2006

Cadwalader was the first major New York law firm to respond to the growth and rapid transformation of the health care industry by forming a practice to focus on and meet the industry's unique needs. With considerable resources and talented practitioners in the diverse areas affecting the industry - corporate governance, corporate finance, government regulation, Medicare and Medicaid, insolvency and restructuring, labor relations, litigation, risk management, securities, capital markets, and tax - Cadwalader became and remains a leader in health care law.

Clients from the entire spectrum of the health care industry have benefited from our attorneys' knowledge, experience, expertise and innovation. We successfully serve hospitals, nursing homes, clinical laboratories, health maintenance organizations, home health care providers, international health organizations and pharmaceutical companies in every facet of their operations. In addition, the Firm represents venture capital investors in health care projects, institutional lenders to the health care industry, and various state and national associations of health care providers. Among our many accomplishments are the creation of numerous managed care provider networks and assisted living programs. Cadwalader also actively participates in the development of health care legislation and public policy at the state and national level.

In addition to a broad corporate, regulatory and transactional practice, the Department has been active in litigation spurred by the federal government's crackdown on fraud and abuse, which has targeted a wide range of providers for investigation and prosecution. Cadwalader's litigation expertise has proven valuable in containing and mitigating our clients' exposure. The Firm has defended civil litigations, criminal prosecutions, and false claims and qui tam actions. We also have assisted many clients in structuring internal compliance programs.