Managing Partner
Joined: 1989
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Blane Clark brings four decades of proven skill in successfully negotiating, documenting, and closing complex business/commercial, industrial, healthcare, and oil and gas transactions. He guides clients through corporate structuring and restructuring and provides legal solutions to the day-to-day issues that surface in managing and developing a business. Blane has earned a stellar reputation as a top-tier business advisor in the region. His clientele includes privately held and family businesses, as well as major public corporations. Blane supports his clients across multiple industries throughout all stages of the business life cycle. For the healthcare industry, Blane drafts and negotiates all types of healthcare sector-specific contracts including professional services agreements between hospital-based physician groups and hospitals. He navigates healthcare entities through employment and independent contractor agreements, shareholder, LLC operating and partnership agreements among physician shareholders, members and partners. He has also negotiated sale and purchase agreements involving the disposition of physician group practices to hospitals and private equity backed portfolio companies and, in some cases, assisted physician groups in the reacquisition of their practices. Notably, Blane has helped different physician groups merge together in a successful and integrated manner and assisted in the development of a physician-owned hospital. Blane also serves as outside counsel to energy businesses – with a particular focus on midstream oil and gas transactions in the deepwater of the Gulf of Mexico and onshore. He advises on all aspects of connection, use and access, dedication, gathering, and gas processing agreements, joint venture and other organization agreements and many other varieties of complex commercial agreements. In fact, Blane served as lead counsel and the catalyst for closing an LLC Operating Agreement for a $3+ billion project that included an 1100-mile natural gas liquids pipeline, fractionation facility, storage facilities, LPG terminal, and export facilities. Simply, Blane helps his clients to do their jobs even better by focusing on providing strategic legal advice designed to maximize potential ROI and minimize the risks associated with business operations and commercial and industrial endeavors. As the former Managing Partner of Kean Miller, Blane knows, having managed and led the firm forward for many years, the challenges associated with running a business and ensuring that actionable best practices, grounded in sound legal theory, are executed across internal and external initiatives. His true breadth and depth of experience across many types of transactions and specialized industry sectors allow him to get client deals over the finish line in real time. Blane is appreciated inside and outside of the firm for his ability to establish immediate credibility, rapport, and goodwill among business constituents without losing sight of core commercial objectives. His industry longevity and hands-on leadership experience result in problem-solving and sensible legal/business solutions that focus on eliminating roadblocks to progress and safeguarding ROI potential.
