Brian Heaton Bio

Brian Heaton is a long-time member of the firm's Business, Acquisitions, and Securities and Health Care Practices. He is active in Firm management, currently serving on the firm's five-member Executive Committee. His practice is primarily focused on providing business law advice and assisting start-up and established businesses across multiple industries with everyday operations and extraordinary transactions. He represents both sellers and financial and strategic purchasers in the middle market in complex transactions involving stock and asset sales, mergers, strategic joint ventures, affiliations, licensing arrangements, and other restructurings. Mr. Heaton also frequently serves as external general counsel for his clients and has advised on matters such as corporate governance, ownership transfers, buy-sell agreements, choice of entity decisions, fiduciary duties, antitrust and competitive analysis, shareholder disputes, and inter-owner conflict resolution. Mr. Heaton’s health care experience includes representing provider organizations such as hospitals, physicians and physician groups (including those in oncology, orthopedics, OBGYN, urology, podiatry, radiology, and general practice), ambulatory surgery centers, long-term care facilities, and hospital-physician partnerships. He regularly structures transactions to comply with licensing and payor requirements, corporate practice of medicine restrictions, fraud and abuse laws, the Anti-Kickback Statute and Stark Law, and other health care regulations. Mr. Heaton is active in numerous professional organizations. He is a Past President and current member of the Board of Directors of ACG Indiana and serves on the Board of Directors of the Indiana Rural Health Association (IRHA). He is also President of the Board of Directors of the Westfield Library Foundation and a member of the American Health Lawyers Association (AHLA).