Brian Heaton, JD, MBA, BS

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, including representing 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 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, shareholder disputes and other inter-owner conflict resolution, 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 oncology, orthopedics, OBGYN, urology, podiatry, radiology, 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 payor 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 as the President of 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).