Bio

Brian Heaton serves as Chair of the firm's Business, Acquisitions, and Securities Practice and is a long-time member of the firm's Health Care Practice. He is active in Firm management, currently serving on the firm's five-member Executive Committee. His practice is primarily focused on providing general corporate and business law advice and assisting start-up and established businesses across multiple industries with everyday operations and extraordinary transactions, including representing both sellers and purchasers in complex transactions involving stock and asset sales, mergers, dissolutions, joint ventures, affiliations, licensing arrangements, and other restructurings. Mr. Heaton also frequently serves as external general counsel for his clients and has advised clients as to general corporate governance issues, transfers of ownership, buy-sell agreements, choice of entity decisions, fiduciary duties among owners and management, antitrust and competitive analysis (including Hart-Scott-Rodino (HSR) filings), and other matters. Mr. Heaton’s health care experience includes representing health care provider organizations, including hospitals, physicians, physician groups (including in the fields of radiology, oncology, orthopedics, OBGYN, urology, podiatry, and general practice), ambulatory surgery centers, long-term care facilities and hospital-physician partnerships. As part of those representations, Mr. Heaton has experience structuring transactions to comply with state and federal licensing and certification requirements, corporate practice of medicine restrictions, fraud and abuse concerns, the Anti-Kickback Statute and Stark laws, and other regulations unique to the health care industry. Mr. Heaton is active in numerous professional organizations, including serving on the Board of Directors of the Indiana chapter of the Association for Corporate Growth (ACG), as President of the Board of Directors of the Westfield Library Foundation, and as a member of the American Health Lawyers Association (AHLA).