Health & Wellness

Our approach

Now more than ever, people are taking preventative measures and changing the way they live and work to stay fit, energetic and healthy. From healthy eating to exercise, the focus on wellness, in all aspects of personal and corporate life, has increased dramatically. Fitness- and health-related businesses have expanded into a trillion-dollar market.

Shifting consumer behaviors and trends and evolving nutritional standards and health care policies are driving growth in the health and wellness industry and bringing new opportunities to companies in a variety of sectors. We leverage our breadth of experience, across several practice areas, to provide counsel and guidance attuned to the specific needs of the broad range of fitness and wellness companies and entrepreneurs, including:

• Corporate formation, structuring and acquisitions
• Branding, licensing and intellectual property
• Regulatory guidance concerning fitness and wellness products, foods and beverages
• Advising on investment issues
• Employment issues for fitness and wellness companies
• Corporate wellness programs
• Privacy issues related to health and personal data
• Franchising issues

Who we work with

• Health and sports clubs
• Boutique fitness studios
• Exercise and fitness equipment manufacturers
• Fitness video production companies
• Nutritional supplement manufacturers
• Wellness entrepreneurs
• Natural food, beverage and products manufacturers
• Wellness-related software developers
• Hospitals and health care providers
• Life sciences companies
• Investors focused on fitness and wellness

Representative experience

• Advising an employer-sponsored health plan with its contracting and HIPAA issues related to a wellness management solutions vendor
• Advising reproductive health care company on compliance with U.S. and international privacy laws
• Securing dismissal of a lawsuit attacking a fitness franchise’s transgender-friendly locker room policy
• Assisting a life sciences company focused in the natural wellness sector in acquisition restructuring of a therapeutic healing creams company
• Assisting a physical therapy organization in securing agreements and permissions to provide its services in various locations of a national fitness center
• Serving as outside general counsel to a vegan snack company
• Securing trademarks for a natural cosmetics and skincare company
• Representing a private equity-backed physical therapy company in pursuing mergers and acquisitions and addressing regulatory issues
• Representing a family office in its investment in a healthy gourmet snack food company
• Providing legal counsel for a roll-up of cold-pressed juice retail operations in the United States and Canada
• Providing legal counsel to a cold-pressed juice company on its equity raise