Ragini helps clients navigate complex compliance and transactional matters.
Ragini focuses her practice on mergers, acquisitions, and general corporate and governance matters across a range of industries and sectors, with a focus on healthcare and other highly-regulated industries. As part of her transactional practice, she assists private equity sponsors, strategic buyers, and healthcare providers, both buy-side and sell-side, in connection with buyouts, mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, and other transactional matters. Ragini has handled deals involving a wide range of providers, including health systems, physician practices, ambulatory surgical centers, and various post-acute care providers, such as assisted living facilities, skilled nursing facilities, and home health agencies. She has represented both the providers themselves as well as their sponsors and purchasers, and she has drafted, negotiated, and interpreted a wide range of professional services agreements for clients throughout the healthcare space.
As part of her transactional practice, Ragini also advises an equally diverse array of healthcare industry clients on regulatory compliance issues. Her primary focus is the compliance questions that arise as part of a transaction or joint venture or in the midst of a change in corporate governance. Ragini’s regulatory and risk management work frequently includes matters relating to:
- Anti-Kickback Statute (AKS)
- Stark Law
- Licensing and credentialing
- Privacy and security
With more than a decade of experience, Ragini has devoted her entire legal career to transactions within the healthcare industry. She thrives on the breadth of questions that arise and the complexity of deal structures, and she loves drawing on her experience with previous transactions to create solutions for the next client. Ragini also loves supporting the healthcare industry: she comes from a family of healthcare providers and understands the importance of ensuring that health systems have the financing and corporate structure they need to effectively serve patients.
Known for her clear communication, Ragini takes the time to walk clients through the implications and importance of each provision or option. She excels at providing concise cost/benefit analyses of potential decisions, helping clients choose the best path for their strategic goals.