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Keith has practiced law in the health care field for more than 20 years, focusing on transactional, business and regulatory matters for nonprofit and for-profit health industry clients. Keith has a national practice and regularly represents academic medical centers (AMCs), large health systems, community hospitals, integrated delivery systems, managed care organizations and physician group practices.
Keith regularly advises AMCs, health systems, hospitals and related organizations on a broad array of business and legal matters, including mergers and consolidations, acquisitions and divestitures, joint ventures, business transactions, corporate governance and state and federal regulatory matters. Keith is frequently engaged by health care organizations to negotiate and structure critical strategic affiliations, mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures, including physician-hospital ventures and initiatives. In addition, Keith often represents Catholic-sponsored and other faith-based health care organizations in complex transactional, affiliation and governance matters. He has significant experience in the development of managed care organizations and managed care contracting.
From 1991 until 1998, Keith also served as outside general counsel of Premier Health Alliance (now Premier, Inc.), one of the largest group purchasing organizations in the health industry.
Prior to joining the firm, Keith was a partner at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP and a founding principal of Green Stewart Farber & Anderson, PC.
In General. Keith earned his bachelor's degree from DePauw University in 1979 and his J.D. degree from George Washington University Law School in 1982. After law school, he clerked for Judge Norma Holloway Johnson, United States District Court for the District of Columbia. Keith is a member of the District of Columbia and Illinois Bars and is admitted to practice before a number of federal courts, including the United States Supreme Court. | 