Professional Experience
Ryan has significant experience representing healthcare providers, including physician groups, long term care providers, home health providers, hospice agencies, pharmacies, and other ancillary providers, in all aspects of healthcare transactions and related matters. He assists healthcare clients with the negotiation, due diligence, structure, and consummation of acquisitions, divestitures, leases, management arrangements, and joint venture arrangements. In addition, Ryan counsels healthcare clients on certain regulatory compliance matters, licensure, certification, and reimbursement issues, and other general business matters such as corporate structure and governance, the negotiation and drafting of service and supply contracts and agreements, and the development and implementation of policies, procedures, and manuals.
Ryan frequently assists clients, both lenders and borrowers, with various financing transactions, including conventional and capital market term financing, working capital facilities, and public and private bond placements. He also maintains a specific focus representing healthcare lenders and borrowers in healthcare specific financing transactions, which often involve complex collateralization and perfection issues and numerous regulatory, licensure, certification, and Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement concerns.
In addition, Ryan counsels and advises clients on various general business and legal matters, including entity formation and governance issues, mergers, acquisitions, and other business transactions, contract review and negotiation, real estate matters, and financing arrangements.
Presentations
- "Cloud Computing: Health Information Technology, Privacy and Security," CMBA Health Care Law Section Meeting, Cleveland, Ohio, September 21, 2011
- "HIPAA Update," Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association's 26th Annual Health Care Law Institute, April 30, 2010
Professional & Community Associations
- Active volunteer, Jewish Big Brothers and Big Sisters Association of Greater Cleveland
- Active volunteer, North Olmsted Hot Stove Little League Baseball Organization.
Education
University of Toledo, College of Law, J.D., (magna cum laude,
Order of the Coif), 2003
University of Dayton, B.A., (magna cum laude), 2000
Awards & Recognitions2011 - Selected for inclusion in Ohio Super Lawyers magazine, as a member of its Rising Stars list. Area of practice: Health Care Law. |
Articles by J. Ryan WilliamsNovember 2011 - "AMCNO Participates in Privacy Summit," Northern Ohio PhysicianJuly/August 2011 - "Update on the Ohio Health Information Partnership HIE and Patient Consent Issue," Northern Ohio Physician May/June 2011 - "The Ohio Health Information Partnership (OHIP) Position on Patient Consent Under Review," Northern Ohio Physician |
