MATT BURNSTEIN
Partner, Chair
Chambers-designated corporate partner serving as Waller's Chair
Matt Burnstein is the Chair of the Firm, having been elected by the partnership in 2014. In this role, Matt focuses on driving the firm's growth, vision and strategic planning.
Matt enjoys facilitating deals and balances his leadership role with advising on select legal matters. While practicing law, he advises healthcare companies, private equity and venture capital funds, and emerging companies. Clients cite Matt's instincts and experience, his understanding of priorities and strategic objectives, and his determination to get deals done. Responsive and sensitive to client business needs, Matt works effectively with opposing counsel to keep transactions on track.
Representative clients include:
Hospitals and health systems doing acquisitions, divestitures, and joint ventures
Private equity funds buying and selling platform companies, and those companies making bolt-on acquisitions
Emerging businesses and venture capital firms
Behavioral healthcare
National research university
Representative experience includes:
Represented a leading ambulatory surgery center company in dozens of acquisitions, developments and syndications of LLCs and limited partnerships in joint ventures with physicians and/or hospitals
Represented two publicly traded behavioral healthcare services companies in all aspects of their mergers and acquisitions programs, including a $250 million acquisition, a $145 million acquisition, the $70 million disposition of a non-core business and multiple single-facility acquisitions
Advised an acute care hospital company in the acquisition of large physician practices and independent physicians associations and the formation of multiple joint ventures with technology providers and ancillary service line providers
Represented a payment processing company from inception to its sale for $55 million
Handled more than 100 private placements on behalf of investors and issuers
matt.burnstein@wallerlaw.com
Get To Know Matt
Matt has run a full marathon in 46 states in his quest to complete one in all 50. Matt enjoys watching his daughter play basketball and his wife coach youth girls basketball teams. Matt's other hobbies include travel, from Walt Disney World and Universal Studios to hiking the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu to golf in Scotland.
Matt's Related Experience View More of Matt's Experience
HCA merges with cloud-based software company
Represented HCA in its merger with Genospace.
The Rehab Documentation Company (ReDoc) acquired by Net Health
Served as lead transaction counsel to ReDoc, a provider of integrated clinical EMR and management solutions for the physical, occupational and speech therapy markets, in its acquisition by Net Health.
Surgery Partners acquires majority interest in Delaware Outpatient Center for Surgery
Served as lead transaction counsel to Surgery Partners in its acquisition of Delaware Outpatient Center for Surgery, a multi-specialty facility in Newark, Delaware.
Acadia Healthcare acquires CRC Health Group, Inc.
Represented Acadia Healthcare in its $1.3 billion acquisition of CRC Health Group, a leading provider of treatment services related to substance abuse and other addiction and behavioral disorder.
HCA sells InterMedHx, LLC
Represented HCA Healthcare, Inc. in its sale of InterMedHx, a provider of healthcare technology solutions, to Cerner.
HCA's Health Insight Capital invests in Intelligent InSites
Served as lead transaction counsel to HCA Healthcare, Inc. and its investment entity, Health Insight Capital, in its investment in Intelligent InSites.
View More of Matt's Experience
Healthcare Investors & Lenders
Healthcare Mergers & Acquisitions
Outpatient & Ambulatory Services
Healthcare Information Technology
J.D., Vanderbilt University Law School, 1996
Order of the Coif
B.A., magna cum laude, Vanderbilt University, 1993
Court Admissions
Chambers USA
Recognized as an Eminent Practitioner in Corporate/M&A work (Tennessee) (2011-2021)
The Best Lawyers in America© (BL Rankings)
Corporate Law, 2010-2022
Mergers and Acquisitions Law, 2013-2022
Martindale-Hubbell
AV Preeminent Rating
Nashville Business Journal
Best of the Bar, 2019
Nashville Post
2019 InCharge List
Professional Involvement
Member, Nashville, Tennessee and American Bar Associations along with the ABA Section of Business Law, ABA Section on Health Law
Member, American Health Law Association
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