Caroline J. Patterson

Caroline Patterson brings more than 25 years of legal experience to her work representing health care practices and industry professionals in transactional, corporate and regulatory matters. Caroline 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 and concentrates her practice on a wide variety of healthcare 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. Investigators and clinical institutions also look to her for advice on clinical trial agreements and clinical research law. Caroline’s clients include physician practices, 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) and the American Society of Retina Specialist on advanced legal topics related to healthcare, including mergers, acquisitions, private equity, fraud and abuse, clinical research, and employment law matters. Caroline is also a regular contributor to Brach Eichler’s monthly Health Law Update.