Charles R. Buck is a partner in the law firm of McDermott Will & Emery LLP based in the Firm’s Boston office. As a member of the Health Department, his practice is focused on complex transactions and regulatory compliance.
Charlie represents a wide range of clients, including proprietary and tax-exempt hospital systems; academic medical centers and faculty practice groups; pharmaceutical companies; and HMOs and other health insurers. He routinely provides regulatory and transactional representation to such clients in connection with acquisitions, joint ventures, strategic affiliations, conversions to tax-exempt status, and other transactional matters.
Charlie’s regulatory practice is focused on Federal fraud and abuse and the Stark law; obtaining and maintaining tax-exemption; HIPAA and health information privacy; state insurance licensure and determination of need law; and general corporate matters.
Charlie is ranked in Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business. In 2007 he was selected to participate in the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce Boston’s Future Leaders program, which is limited to a small group of successful, emerging leaders who have been identified by senior executives of Chamber of Commerce member organizations.
After graduating from law school, Charlie clerked for The Honorable Charles R. Breyer of the Northern District of California. He graduated Order of the Coif from Stanford Law School, where he was an Associate Editor of the Stanford Law Review. He graduated Magna Cum Laude from Middlebury College with a B.A. in economics.
Prior to law school, Charlie served on the Professional Staff of the United States Senate Finance Committee for Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan where he concentrated on health reform and Medicare Part A. He also worked as a Policy Analyst at the Jackson Hole Group where he focused on rural health care and purchasing issues.
Education:
Stanford Law School, J.D.
Middlebury College, B.A. |