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Gardner Armsby is a partner in King & Spalding’s Healthcare practice and advises healthcare industry clients on corporate transactions and regulatory compliance matters. He represents for-profit and non-profit healthcare companies, as well as lenders, private equity firms, and other healthcare investors. With a unique combination of corporate and regulatory expertise, Gardner assists clients in structuring, negotiating, and executing transactions in the highly regulated healthcare industry, including mergers and acquisitions, reorganizations, joint ventures, financings, management arrangements, affiliations, and other complex transactions. Gardner also counsels clients on healthcare regulatory and compliance matters, including corporate practice of medicine restrictions, fraud and abuse laws, HIPAA, licensing and certificate of need requirements, and 501(c)(3) tax-exemption issues. Gardner has worked with a broad spectrum of healthcare businesses, including health systems, hospitals, surgery centers, nursing homes, physician practices, home health and hospice agencies, laboratories, pharmacies, medical supply companies, and electronic health records companies, among others. Gardner graduated first in his class from Georgia State University College of Law. He received his undergraduate degree in Economics from the University of Georgia. Prior to attending law school, Gardner worked as CFO and Corporate Compliance Officer for a 501(c)(3) non-profit provider of vocational training services for adults with disabilities.
