With a background in-house with a Dental Support Organization (DSO), Matt optimizes corporate transactions for healthcare clients.
Coming from a family of hospital executives, physicians, nurses, dentists, and other providers, Matt understands and values the patient care mission so central to healthcare practitioners. He also understands that these individuals, while highly knowledgeable in their medical specialties, may not have the requisite training in legal or business matters to accomplish their business goals. Matt knew he could leverage his own interest in the law to support healthcare providers so that they could focus on their patients.
Today, Matt serves as an attorney for hospitals, health systems, DSOs, dental practice groups, physician practice groups, dentists, physicians, and healthtech companies across the country. He regularly assists with various corporate transactions, including asset and equity transactions (buy-side and sell-side), practice acquisitions and sales, mergers, affiliations, joint ventures, reorganizations, member substitutions, and real estate transactions. He also provides external general counsel on corporate governance matters and day-to-day legal concerns, such as labor and employment or third-party contracts.
While Matt represents clients across the healthcare industry, he has a particular focus on dentistry, thanks to his in-house experience. After his first stint at Husch Blackwell, he was hired by a firm client, a Wisconsin DSO, to serve as general counsel and vice president of legal. Matt oversaw a massive expansion for the company into multiple additional Midwestern states, serving as the lead attorney on practice acquisitions and on the creation of separate DSOs in each state. He also assisted with corporate reorganization, equity restructuring, corporate practice of dentistry, real estate and human resources matters. His up-close view of the company’s business decisions gave Matt deep insight into the corporate side of healthcare organizations.
In 2023, Matt returned to the firm, where clients appreciate his in-house perspective, his rationality with complex situations, and his passion for their industry and its mission. He has built a solid reputation for his in-depth knowledge of healthcare organizations’ corporate needs, as well as for his ability to get transactions over the finish line in a manner that makes business sense for the client.