Thomas M. Fahey

My focus

Strategic Transactions

I advise health care providers on strategic issues and guide them in executing their strategies. I also help them achieve growth through mergers, joint ventures and new facility development.

Health Care Finance

Health care providers and lenders turn to me for both borrower’s counsel and underwriter’s counsel in large bond financing transactions. I also advise on the bond-related issues that can arise from corporate restructurings, acquisitions and dispositions. Recently we represented the underwriters of a $500-million bond issue on behalf of a large academic medical center.

General Counsel

Acting as outside general counsel, I help health care providers manage their ongoing legal issues, from compliance to corporate tax and government advocacy.

Looking ahead

There’s a growing challenge to structure health care transactions within the complex regulatory environment in which health systems operate. These transactions require counsel skilled in both corporate and regulatory matters.

• “Adhering to Board Duties in an Affiliation Transaction,” trusteemag.com, June 30, 2017
• Presenter, “Navigating Difficult Due Diligence Issues that Arise in Health Care Transactions,” Illinois Association of Healthcare Attorneys 34th Annual Healthcare Symposium, November 10, 2016
• Panelist, “Regulatory Update,” Healthcare & Medical Office Conference, Illinois Real Estate Journal, October 30, 2015
• Moderator and Presenter: “Compliance Potpourri,” First Illinois Healthcare Financial Management Association Spring Summit, April 10, 2014
• Panelist, “In the Trenches: Hospital Trends and Outlook,” First Illinois Healthcare Financial Management Association Fall Summit , November 4, 2013
• Panelist, “Hospital Trustee Breakfast,” Fourth Annual Governance Forum, Crain’s Chicago Business, February 28, 2013